[Baypiggies] concurrency talk

[David Reid]

On Sep 17, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:


> Someone hinted at this idea earlier, but it might be fun to have an
> overview discussion on a bunch of different concurrency techniques.
> We could have a bunch of speakers, each speaking for 15 minutes on a
> specific topic.
>

I'm inclined to think that 15 minutes isn't long enough to really  
introduce any one of these topics to someone who is new to dealing  
with concurrency.  Though I would be interested in series of full  
length meetings dealing with concurrency perhaps culminating in some  
sort of round table discussion.

The fact of the matter is, there is no general solution to  
concurrency, especially in Python where concurrency frameworks seem  
to be the new web framework.  Also like web frameworks anyone who has  
an interesting opinion on the subject has already decided that their  
way is the best and is often under the delusion that it's a general  
solution.

That being said, I'd be very interested in hearing other peoples  
strong opinions on the subject as long as they are accompanied by  
practical experience solving specific problems.  Specifically I'm  
interested in hearing someone speak on Parallel Python, greenlets and  
Erlang.  In exchange for any of these topics I'd be willing to give a  
Twisted talk, though at this point in time I'm completely unable to  
commit to a specific date that isn't  _at_least_ 3 months out.

I'm also inclined to disagree that we shouldn't try to discuss how to  
actually use these things.  Learning the practical limitations of the  
implementation of the thing you want to use right now to accomplish  
some task seems a lot more interesting to me than learning the  
theoretical limitations of it.

-David