Re: Why nobody talks about Lua

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Tony Finch:

> 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

I think this has been fixed. See

<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093321.html>

and subsequent threads.