Re: Why nobody talks about Lua

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

> > "Yes, but we have threads!"
>
> Yes, they do. But we don't need them!

Last time I looked at Python the interpreter used a single lock to make 
sure that no two threads could be running inside the interpreter at the 
same time. Python supports threads by serializing them. That helps with 
using blocking system calls but not with performance.

Gé

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