decorators vs GIL

[John J. Lee]

sjdevnull at yahoo.com (G. S. Hayes) writes:
[...]
> No.  I'm using alternative multiprocessing/event-driven programming
> methods that are much less error prone (ie easier to program and
> maintain) and easier to get good performance out of than using
> threads.  The core difference between threads and processes is that
> threads share all their memory while processes have protected memory. 
> That difference _should_ be the deciding factor in whether you use
> processes or threads in an application, although as I've said
> throughout this thread two major platforms (Windows{see * below} and
> Java) don't give you the tools to make that possible; thankfully,
> Python does on OSes where it's possible.
[...]

...although Java 1.4 does provide a select()-workalike -- see Alan
Kennedy's recent post on implementing socket, select and asyncore for
Jython.


John