future multi-threading for-loops

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:22:29 -0800, castironpi wrote:

> Some iterables and control loops can be multithreaded.  Worries that
> it takes a syntax change.
> 
> for X in A:
>     def f( x ):
>         normal suite( x )
>     start_new_thread( target= f, args= ( X, ) )
> 
> Perhaps a control-flow wrapper, or method on iterable.
> 
> @parallel
> for X in A:
>     normal suite( X )
> 
> for X in parallel( A ):
>     normal suite( X )
> 
> Discussion presued about multi-core systems.  Allow user certain
> control over what runs on multi-core.  Clearly, not generally
> applicable.  -- But, from __future__ import does change syntax.

Why not simply writing a function?

def execute_parallel(f, A):
    for args in A:
        start_new_thread(target=f, args=args)


def f(x):
    normal_suit(x)

parallel(f, A)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch