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by euccastro 6832 days ago
Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading)

Source? With the bashing Python is getting because of the GIL, it surprises me that someone would switch to Python from elsewhere for any reasons related to threading.

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> Source?

Straight from PG:

"Incidentally, the last straw, I've been told, was some bug in CMUCL threads that kept making the system crash."

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/574d19d5e7...

From Reddit: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html