Comments on Replacing C

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Jan 9 02:43:55 UTC 2017


Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > Eric has occasionally said non-good things about threads.
> 
> And I 100% agree, if we are talking about Python threads.  With the
> GIL the performance is no improvement over single trheaded.

No, my objections were more general.  But you are right about Python
threads and the GIL being a disaster area.  They might force me out
of doing serious work in the language.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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