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Geoffrey Myers

On Jul 20, 2013, at 1:14 AM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

> On 07/20/2013 12:05 AM, Dustin Strickland wrote:
>> Ew, Java... How about Python? It's almost as effecient as C code, and has a
>> decent built-in library for threads.
> 
> You must be smoking something good...  the global interpreter lock in
> python seriously impacts its ability to make effective use of multiple
> cores unless your background threads spend the bulk of their time in
> native libraries.
> 
> An in-depth treatment is here (by a python enthusiast):
> 
> http://jessenoller.com/blog/2009/02/01/python-threads-and-the-global-interpreter-lock
> 
> Neither java, nor C, nor C++ have such a problem.  (I generally use C
> for such projects due to long familiarity.)
> 
> Phil
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