[concurrency] about the concurrency-sig list

[George Belotsky]

Thanks, Dave!

I would love to see this be entirely data-driven.  Mere arguing, is,
indeed, not useful.

All the best,

George.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:58 AM, David Beazley <dave at dabeaz.com> wrote:

> Pete's wiseguy thread comment not withstanding, I'll freely admit that I'm
> usually not interested in participating in online discussions about
> concurrency due to excessive religious dogma backed by a lack of empirical
> data or experiments.   IMHO, there needs to be more level-minded
> experimentation, analysis, and discussion.  If this is what this list might
> be about, then it might be worthwhile.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Peter Portante wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we would want to avoid dogma, and have this list provide
> understanding of how things work and pros & cons?
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Peter Fein wrote:
> >
> > > Hi-
> > >
> > > I started this list & the concurrency section on the wiki
> > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency after taking one of Dave
> > > Beazley's classes. Other folks & I wanted a place to discuss the kind
> > > of issues Brad discusses below, in a general and cross-toolkit
> > > context. I don't know why it never really took off, though I'd love to
> > > see it have more life.
> > >
> > > Other possible topic includes: Python under Hadoop, MPI, data
> > > processing pipelines (generators).
> > >
> > > Should we just establish "Threads: you're doing it wrong" as a ground
> > > rule and be done with it? ;-P
> > >
> > > --Pete
> > >
> > No, given that "Threads: you're doing it wrong" is patently incorrect
> except for certain cases. I use them more than I use multiprocessing. :)
> >
> >
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