[Python-Dev] Towards 1.6 Final

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:09:02 -0700


On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:05:55PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Vladimir Marangozov wrote:
> > 
> > M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, then make it default on Linux and Windows... but leave it
> > > turned off on other platforms which still have problems
> > > such as AIX.
> > 
> > No, I'd suggest turning it on by default everywhere and provide a
> > --without-thread configure option if it isn't there yet.
> > 
> > On AIX there are identified compiler/libthread combinations that work
> > or don't work. They can be detected though and since the compiler is
> > detected earlier, --with-thread can be automatically disabled with a
> > notification message about the conflict.
> 
> Ok, let me drop in another argument:
> 
> How you are going to sell the performance loss due to
> enabled thread support even when a script doesn't 
> need threads at all ?
> 
> How about building two versions of the interpreter per default:
> one with threads enabled and one without threads ?

Hey, the sky is falling, too.

If people are concerned with the performance and want to eek that gain out,
then they can build with --without-threads

Not a problem.

"Gee. My operating system is too slow because it deals with all these
process and threads. Why can't I have a single-process OS like DOS? It runs
*so* much faster."

:-)

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/