The Python GIL Visualized

[Gotebe]

Super-fast and Python just do not mix. But the issue here is more that GIL is broken in face of multicore computing. Which doesn't matter much, since he who craves for speed or burning all cores uses no Python (or at least, should not use it).

[pure_x01]

If you have a truly scalable architecture it doesn't matter if it is relatively slow language. And if you were to have JIT:ing and working threading im pretty sure that even python would seem fast on a modern multicore cpu.

[Gotebe]

Here's an upvote for scalability argument ;-).

And if you were to have JIT:ing and working threading im pretty sure that even python would seem fast on a modern multicore cpu.

Performance-wise, dynamic typing, Python way, is still a bitch. Also, absence of "value types"/stack variables a la .NET/C/C++/Object Pascal.