parallel processing in standard library

[Stefan Behnel]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>  > Well, there is one parallel processing API that already *is* part of
> stdlib:
>> the threading module. So the processing module would fit just nicely into the
>> idea of a "standard" library.
> 
> Don't you forget the select module and its siblings for I/O bound
> concurrency?

Hmm, when I think of "parallel processing", it's usually about processing, not
about I/O. If it starts getting I/O bound, it's rather worth considering
single-threaded processing instead.

Stefan