| Weblog: | Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google | |
| Subject: | Good for Guido! | |
| Date: | 2005-12-21 13:52:19 | |
| From: | has01 | |
| (And here's hoping Google starts by paying him to rid us of that ruddy Global Interpreter Lock. ;p) | ||
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Good for Guido!
2005-12-22 05:33:07 Fuzzyman [Reply | View]
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Good for Guido!
2005-12-22 14:21:04 gstein [Reply | View]
Yeah... I was that last person. I got rid of the GIL in Python 1.4. It introduced a lot of lock contention around other data structures. With further work, I imagine it could have been fixed, but Python is a lot more complicated nowadays. No way would I try it again.
As for whether this will be good for Python? I'd say "yes", as a significant portion of Guido's time is dedicated to working on Python. Much more than the 'day a week' at his previous employers.
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Last discussion I saw concluded that the GIL makes threaded programming considerably easier.
A decent interprocess communication protocol would do more for solving the 'Python programs on multi-processor systems' IMHO.