[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:28:25 +0100,
"Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com> a écrit :

> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > 
> > I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems
> > wasn't very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms
> > have it. Is it still useful for production purposes to configure
> > --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than
> > curiosity of mind? 
> 
> I hope that the intent behind asking this question was more of being
> curious, rather then considering dropping --without-threads:
> unfortunately, multithreading was, still is and probably will remain
> troublesome on many supercomputing platforms.

I was actually asking this question in the hope that we could perhaps
simplify our range of build options (and the corresponding C #define's),
but you made a convincing point that we should keep the
--without-threads option :-)

Thank you

Antoine.