Timeline for What are the drawbacks of Python?
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 3:17 | comment | added | Warren P | Nevertheless so many real world Python app has module dependencies that tie it to CPython and native CPython extensions, that JYthon is immaterial to real Python use. Does Mercurial run in Jython, for instance? | |
| Sep 8, 2012 at 18:32 | comment | added | philosodad | This is really more a critique of the interpreter than the language. My understanding is that Jython bypasses the GIL and uses Java Threads, which typically are system threads. | |
| Sep 8, 2012 at 13:05 | comment | added | dbr | @Casey I've clarified the wording in the answer, since threading is supported, just exhibits some weird performance (added a reference and a few links to docs too) | |
| Sep 8, 2012 at 13:01 | history | edited | dbr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarify threading complain (hopefully), adding source for claim, links to multiprocessing and pylint
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| Jul 25, 2011 at 22:21 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Martin Vilcans | ||
| Jul 23, 2011 at 23:32 | comment | added | Brendan Long | The documentation is good if you can manage to find it. Googling Java classes is much easier than Python. | |
| Dec 20, 2010 at 23:15 | comment | added | cmcginty | I know there is threading support, but compared to Java or C, the GIL will really lower your performance. That is why the multiprocessing module is preferred over threading. | |
| Dec 18, 2010 at 7:16 | comment | added | rox0r | Threading is not well supported? The threading libraries have been in there since before 2.1. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 0:48 | comment | added | dsimcha | +1 for pylint. I was unaware of it. Next time I do a project in Python, I'll try it out. Also, multithreading seems to work fine if you use Jython instead of the reference CPython implementation. OTOH Jython is somewhat slower than CPython, so this can partially defeat the purpose. | |
| Oct 28, 2010 at 23:40 | history | answered | cmcginty | CC BY-SA 2.5 |