another scenario is if you are using GIL aware Database adapters like mxODBC to access an RDBMS sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Vazquez Acosta" <mva.led@gmail.com> To: "Andreas Jung" <lists@zopyx.com> Cc: "Zope user list" <zope@zope.org> Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:12:16 AM (GMT-0600) America/Guatemala Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope threads and the GIL Andreas Jung wrote:
--On 4. Mai 2008 09:44:17 -0400 Manuel Vazquez Acosta <mva.led@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, How does the GIL affect Zope threads?
Zope threads are Python threads and therefore a thread switch is not possible is some thread is holding the GIL.
-aj
That would mean that the only place where real multitasking occurs is when fetching objects from ZEO and other I/O bounded tasks, isn't? Best regards, Manuel _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )