"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Python, of course, is unsuitable for many hard realtime systems, > and if you're using Windows you are probably on the wrong platform > in the first place.
Well, there is that. The platform I'm using is a realtime operating system, but it has a Windoze lookalike API for OS functions like threads, semaphores, critical sections, events, and whatnot. [OT] I don't draw any distinction between "soft" and "hard" realtime. I've never seen definitions for those terms that I thought were useful. If some operations must be performed within a certain time window, to me that's realtime, neither hard, soft, smooth, lumpy, or just right. A realtime operating system has guaranteed latency. Depending on the application, it does not necessarily have to be fast. I have an application that runs fine on a realtime OS, but fails eventually under MS Windows running on a processor that's 3x as fast. [/OT] > The bar for putting things in the main distribution should be > very, very high. Agreed. IMHO the bar was not set high enough for the current threading module. > One of the conditions for doing that should > probably be that the code is fairly widely used and widely > required. Why? If the existing code could be better, why not improve it? > > Why not post it to an appropriate "recipe" page in the fledgling > Agile Control Forum site instead? (http://www.engcorp.com/acf) > That way others who *do* work in the machine control field will > have an early chance to try out your code, experiment, maybe > even improve it, fix bugs, Oh, there will be no bugs. > and basically do some of the work that > *should* be done before anything gets into the main Python distro... > I will give it a look. I had some spare time last year when I volunteered the first time. I don't have spare time now, and probably will not have before May at the earliest.. If someone would like to take over the code, I would be happy to contribute it and give as much help as I can. Jive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
