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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 21:35:54 -0800
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From: John Barham <jbarham@gmail.com>
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> I believe GIL is as present in Python nowadays as ever. On a related
> note: does anybody know any sane interpreted languages with a decent
> threading model to go along? Stackless python is the only thing that
> I'm familiar with in that department.

Check out Lua's coroutines: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.11

Here's an implementation of the sieve of Eratosthenes using Lua
coroutines similar to the Limbo one:
http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo?sieve