[Python-Dev] [ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

[Jesse Noller]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 26/06/2010 07:11, John Nagle wrote:
>>
>> We have just released a proof-of-concept implementation of a new
>> approach to thread management - "newthreading". It is available
>> for download at
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/newthreading/
>>
>> The user's guide is at
>>
>> http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/newthreadingintro.html
>
> The user guide says:
>
> The suggested import is
>
> from newthreading import *
>
> The import * form is considered bad practise in *general* and should not be
> recommended unless there is a good reason. This is slightly off-topic for
> python-dev, although I appreciate that you want feedback with the eventual
> goal of producing a PEP - however the introduction of free-threading in
> Python has not been hampered by lack of synchronization primitives but by
> the difficulty of changing the interpreter without unduly impacting single
> threaded code.
>

I asked John to drop a message here for this project - so feel free to
flame me if anyone. This *is* relevant, and I'd guess fairly
interesting to the group as a whole.

jesse