[Python-ideas] async objects

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 5 17:40:49 EDT 2016


Paul Moore wrote:
> I don't know *that* much about Erlang, but Python's model is that of a
> single shared address space with (potentially multiple) threads of
> code running, having access to that address space.

I don't know much about Erlang either, but from what I
gather, it's a functional language. That removes a lot
of potential problems with concurrency right from the
beginning. You can't have trouble with mutation of
shared state if you can't mutate state in the first
place. :-)

-- 
Greg


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