Re: Why nobody talks about Lua

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Gé Weijers wrote:
>
> 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.

It's worse than that. Python's GIL is implemented so badly that you often
get worse performance by adding processors. http://blip.tv/file/2232410

Tony.
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