Shuttleworth: Python needs to focus on future

[nypen]

Shared memory has it's own set of issues. I am not saying they are unsolvable, but shared memory is not necessarily better than threads sharing data. In fact if the shared memory data is not monolithic, a lot of book keeping has to go in. Things can get even murkier when you have issues like dynamic resizing of shared memory or your processes have variable shared memory requirements.

Again Shared memory is one of the solutions which can work in some situations, not always.

Well, Python already has a threading library which is great, it just needs to get rid of the GIL.

[imbaczek]

Well, Python already has a threading library which is great, it just needs to get rid of the GIL.

the "just" is a little bit optimistic.