Why is there no GIL in the Java Virtual Machine? Why does Python need one so bad?

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00:00 Question
00:32 Accepted answer (Score 229)
01:32 Answer 2 (Score 56)
02:48 Answer 3 (Score 7)
03:19 Answer 4 (Score 2)
03:55 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9919...

Accepted answer links:
[Unladen Swallow]: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/
[plan]: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow...

Answer 3 links:
http://www.grouplens.org/node/244

Answer 4 links:
[link]: http://www.duanqu.tech/questions/846721/...
[source]: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/can-t-we-get-rid...

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#java #python #multithreading #jvm #gil

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