Can anyone shed light on where the GIL winds up hurting you? According to this paper [1]: "Thus, in all cases, the single global lock semantics seem fundamenta

Can anyone shed light on where the GIL winds up hurting you? According to this paper [1]: "Thus, in all cases, the single global lock semantics seem fundamentally compatible with both lock-based and transactional memory implementations." [1] http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar09/tech/full_papers/boehm/boehm_html/ http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar09/tech/full_papers/boehm/...