[Python-ideas] A concurrency survey of sorts

[C. Titus Brown]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 12:02:06PM -0700, Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Weeble <clockworksaint at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just want to be sure - the idea of removing the threading module
> > sounds ludicrous. It's not getting serious consideration, is it?
> 
> Removing  the threading module - as part of a change that includes
> providing some other concurrent processing facility - seems like a
> reasonable enough idea that I'll be including it in the sequel.
> Rewriting it to use those facilities might be reasonable for backwards
> compatibility, but the new facilities should have enough advantages
> that new code would just use them.

I obviously haven't been paying enough attention to this conversation,
because this strikes me as a horrible idea.  In particular, I write
C extensions that release the GIL and scale just fine across multiple
processors.  Is the idea to force those kind of applications to use
a new communications model?

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu