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Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last?

Date 2012-07-01 14:09 -0500
From Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>
Subject Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last?
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On 7/1/2012 1:53 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there are no concrete plans to integrate
> concurrency better, or get rid of the GIL, at the moment. To quote
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock
> 
>   """Getting rid of the GIL is an occasional topic on the python-dev
> mailing list. No one has managed it yet."""
There's also this, recently written by one of CPython's core devs:
http://python-notes.boredomandlaziness.org/en/latest/python3/questions_and_answers.html#but-but-surely-fixing-the-gil-is-more-important-than-fixing-unicode
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when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? dmitrey <dmitrey15@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 10:51 -0700
  Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2012-07-01 20:53 +0200
    Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-07-01 16:03 -0400
  Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2012-07-01 20:58 +0200
  Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 14:09 -0500
  Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2012-07-01 21:36 +0200
  Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-07-02 10:51 -0700
    Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2012-07-03 20:16 -0700
  Re: when "normal" parallel computations in CPython will be implemented at last? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-02 20:37 +0200

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