[pypy-commit] pypy default: Give multithreading as an example

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Sun Jul 7 09:38:40 CEST 2013


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r65248:f5c4d57a8dc3
Date: 2013-07-07 09:37 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/f5c4d57a8dc3/

Log:	Give multithreading as an example

diff --git a/pypy/doc/faq.rst b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/faq.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/faq.rst
@@ -357,10 +357,13 @@
   mainstream and where they will get help from many people.*
 
   *If anybody seriously wants to promote RPython anyway, he is welcome
-  to: we won't actively resist such a plan.  This is open source, which
-  means that anybody is free to promote and develop anything; but it
-  also means that you must let us choose* not *to go into that direction
-  ourselves.*
+  to: we won't actively resist such a plan.  There are a lot of things
+  that could be done to make RPython a better Java-ish language for
+  example, starting with supporting non-GIL-based multithreading, but we
+  don't implement them because they have little relevance to us.  This
+  is open source, which means that anybody is free to promote and
+  develop anything; but it also means that you must let us choose* not
+  *to go into that direction ourselves.*
 
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 Which backends are there for the RPython toolchain?


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