On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Sven R. Kunze <[email protected]> wrote: > Lately, I talked to friend of mine about async and his initial reaction was > like "hmm that reminds me of early programming days, where you have to > explicitly tell the scheduler to get control back". He's much older than me, > so I think it was interesting for him to see that history is repeating > again. >
Yes. One critical difference is that in the early days, one rogue program could bring the entire computer down; what we have now is preemptive switching between processes and cooperative between tasks within a process. Worst case, you can still only stall out your own program. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
