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Author dabeaz
Recipients beazley, dabeaz, kristjan.jonsson, loewis, pitrou
Date 2010-04-03.12:45:36
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I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but the original GIL problem *DEFINITELY* exists on multicore Windows machines.   I've had numerous participants try it in training classes and workshops they've all observed severely degraded performance for CPU-bound threads on Windows (XP, Vista, and Windows 7).
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