This processor would have precisely no effect on the scalability of Python since the Global Interpreter Lock ensures only one Python thread is run at any one time.
See gil-of-doom
Stackless appears to have no automatic context switching.
Python typically needs multiple processes to utilise true parallel processing made available from multiple cores. Very heavyweight.
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This processor would have precisely no effect on the scalability of Python since the Global Interpreter Lock ensures only one Python thread is run at any one time. See gil-of-doom Stackless appears to have no automatic context switching. Python typically needs multiple processes to utilise true parallel processing made available from multiple cores. Very heavyweight.