[TriLUG] Do a lot of you program in Python?

[Randy Barlow]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 08:01:39PM -0500, Igor Partola wrote:
> The often cited GIL is actually a very specific and often misunderstood feature which should not prevent anyone from adopting the language. Other interpreters often have it too (Ruby being a prime example).

Perhaps this is what you were hinting at by saying "very specific", but
it's worth highlighting that the GIL is not a language feature, but
instead is a CPython implementation detail. CPython is probably the most
used Python implementation, but there are others (PyPy, Jython, etc.),
and nothing in the langage spec demands that these others have the GIL.

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Randy Barlow