[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 02:05:14 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Executors and thread pools are not the same thing.
> 
> I might create a thread pool for *anything*. An executor will always 
> have a specific execution model associated with it (whether it be called 
> futures, as in this case, or runnables or something else).

I'm sorry, but what is the specific execution model you are talking
about, and how is it different from what you usually do with a thread
pool?  Why would you do something other with a thread pool than running
tasks and (optionally) collecting their results?

Thanks

Antoine.