[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

Fri Feb 10 20:54:35 CET 2012

On 10.02.2012 19:36, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> By the time we 100 core CPUs, we'll be measuring RAM in TB, so that
> shouldn't be a problem ;-)

Actually, Python is already great for those. They are called GPUs, and 
OpenCL is all about text processing.
> In cases where the GIL does cause problems, it's usually better to
> consider changing the application design and use asynchronous processing
> with a single threaded design or a multi-process design where each of
> the processes only uses a low number of threads (20-50 per process).

The "GIL problem" is much easier to analyze than most Python developers 
using Linux might think:
- Windows has no fork system call. SunOS used to have a very slow fork 
system call. The majority of Java developers worked with Windows or Sun, 
and learned to work with threads.
For which the current summary is:
- The GIL sucks because Windows has no fork.
Which some might say is the equivalent of:
- Windows sucks.
Sturla