PEP 492: isn't the "await" redundant?

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 07:28 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:

> We don't
> have a problem with threading and multiprocessing having very similar
> APIs, do we? Yet they exist to solve distinctly different problems.

Surely not?

I would think that threading and multiprocessing are two distinct
implementations of the same problem: how to run two or more chunks of code
at the same time.

In CPython we usually say "use threads for I/O bound tasks, processes for
CPU bound tasks" but that's only because of the GIL. One doesn't need such
a distinction in Jython or IronPython.



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