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0 pointslispm15y ago0 comments

CCL has no GIL.

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Which has absolutely nothing to do with the original claim that:

> it has native threads (that feature alone puts it head-and-shoulders over Python)

As I wrote previously (and both you and lisper apparently decided to ignore), Python uses OS threads as well.

lispmOP15y ago

Native threads that are locked against each other by a GIL, are still native threads, but less useful native threads. An important purpose/use of native threads is that they are scheduled by the OS and not hindered by a GIL, so that in multicore machines multiple threads can run concurrently.

CCL does that. Python with the GIL not.

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