[Python-ideas] Exploration PEP : Concurrency for moderately massive (4 to 32 cores) multi-core architectures

[Krishna Sankar]

Stephen,

> project.  Nothing like it's impossible, stupid, or YAGNI.  But Guido,
> and other senior developers, are saying they're not going to devote
> their resources to it as things currently stand (and one of those
> resources the attention of the folks who review PEPs).

<KS>
    I am not sure that is true. I think if we have a well thought out 
PEP that addresses parallelism, it would be looked into by the folks. It 
is just that there are too many different ways of doing it and of 
course, the GIL doesn't help either. There is also a school of thought 
that we should save the GIL and as a result we will find another better 
way of leveraging the multi-core architectures.
</KS>

CHeers
<k/>   
   
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Brian Granger writes:
>
>  > I apologize if this statement is a little exaggerated.  But, I do
>  > think this is a really critical problem that is going to affect
>  > certain groups of Python users and developers in adverse ways.
>  > Perhaps I have not made a very strong case that it is a true "crisis"
>  > though.
>
> No, you're missing the point.  I don't see anybody denying that you
> understand your own needs.  *You* may face a (true) crisis.  *The
> Python community* does not perceive your crisis as its own.
>
> Personally, I don't see why it should.  And I think you'd be much more
> successful at selling this with a two-pronged approach of evangelizing
> just how utterly cool it would be to have a totally-threading GIL-less
> Python on the one hand, and recruiting some gung-ho grad students with
> Google SoC projects (or *gasp* some of your DoE grant or VC money) on
> the other.
>
> Note that nobody has said anything to discourage this as a research
> project.  Nothing like it's impossible, stupid, or YAGNI.  But Guido,
> and other senior developers, are saying they're not going to devote
> their resources to it as things currently stand (and one of those
> resources the attention of the folks who review PEPs).
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