The Future of Python Threading

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On Aug 10, 5:57 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Justin T. wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > The nice thing is that this requires a fairly doable amount of work.
> > First, stackless should be integrated into the core. Then there should
> > be an effort to remove the reliance on the GIL for python threading.
> > After that, advanced features like moving tasklets amongst threads
> > should be explored. I can imagine a world where a single python web
> > application is able to redistribute its millions of requests amongst
> > thousands of threads without the developer ever being aware that the
> > application would eventually scale. An efficient and natively multi-
> > threaded implementation of python will be invaluable as cores continue
> > to multiply like rabbits.
>
> Be my guest, if it's so simple.
>
>
>
> regards
>   Steve
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I've been watching this Intel TBB thing and it sounds like it might be
useful for threading. This fellow claims that he's going to play with
SWIG and may use it to create bindings to TBB for Python, although
he's starting with Perl:

http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2007/07/26/threading-building-blocks-and-c/

Dunno what the license ramifications are though.

Mike