[Python-Dev] Towards 1.6 Final

[M.-A. Lemburg]

[enabling threads per default]
> >
> > 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."

Oh well... never mind, as long as I can still build my
Python without threads, I'm fine :-)

BTW, what about the idea of adding threads at Python level
that was tossed around a few years ago ? Should be easy to
do given Christian's stackless patches together with the
asyncore libs...

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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