[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r64407 - python/trunk/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

[Jesse Noller]

Where would that chapter end up (source-wise) I think a few of us
might have additional things to add ;)

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:30 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:04:11PM -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> I don't think the whole introduction had to go. I think it helped give
>> some idea of how multiprocessing works before jumping straight to the
>> API reference.
>
> I don't think overview material like that should be buried inside the
> documentation for one particular module; it should go in a chapter
> introduction.
>
> My plan is to move multiprocessing from the 'Optional OS Services'
> chapter to the 'Interprocess Communication' chapter, and then expand
> the introduction of the chapter to discuss the GIL and related issues.
> Presumably it was put in the 'Optional OS Services' chapter because
> that's where the threading and thread modules are.
>
> --amk
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