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From: Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Python a commercial proposition ?
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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes:
> And at that level, you aren't going to write your app in Python anyway, 
> and not because of the GIL. (These microcontrollers are unlikely to have 
> multiple cores -- why the hell does your microwave oven need two cores?)

http://greenarrays.com ;-)

> It seems to me that those who claim that the GIL is a serious barrier to 
> Python's use in the enterprise are mostly cargo-cult programmers, 

I would say, it puts a crimp into Python's versatility but there are
still lots of areas where it's not a serious issue.  A real compiler
(PyPy) will help Python performance far more than multi-core currently
can.