Killing threads, and os.system()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:14:33 -0800, John Nagle wrote:

> I won't even get into the appalling mess around the Global Interpreter
> Lock.

You know full well that IronPython and Jython don't have a GIL. If the 
GIL was as harmful as you repeatedly tell us, why haven't you, and 
everyone else, migrated to IronPython and Jython?

Oh yeah, maybe it's because CPython, even with the GIL, is significantly 
faster than the two implementations without a GIL. Go figure.

But never mind the facts, spreading the FUD about Python is much more 
fun. Hey, I hear that Python 3 is tanking too, and millions of Python 
developers are rushing, rushing I say, to port their code to Go. Or was 
it Ruby? Possibly Lua. Maybe VBScript.


> This has forced the use of subprocesses where, in other 
> languages, you'd use threads.  

Only if by "forced" you mean "not forced at all". 

http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
http://www.stackless.com/
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet/
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
http://www.gevent.org/
http://code.google.com/p/cogen/
http://www.kamaelia.org/Home
http://code.google.com/p/syncless/
http://opensource.hyves.org/concurrence/
http://www.tornadoweb.org/
http://docs.python.org/library/asyncore.html
http://pyro.sourceforge.net/
http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing


-- 
Steven