Haven't finished watching this yet, but the GIL has been improved as of 3.2. For instance, the example he gives where threading two copies of a CPU-bound functi

Haven't finished watching this yet, but the GIL has been improved as of 3.2. For instance, the example he gives where threading two copies of a CPU-bound function doubles execution time isn't as terrible given the recent rework of the GIL. http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#multi-threading http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#multi-threading