In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was thinking about how a lot of Lisp proponents claim that Lisp is > inherently parallelizable because its functions don't have (or are not > supposed to have) side effects, and therefore the compiler can easily tell > which calls may be run in parallel instead of strictly serially. I'm not a > Lisp expert so I can't say whether that's true or not, but it seems like an > interesting idea for Python. By the way, I uploaded a sample implementation (in Python) of what I had in mind to http://www.honeypot.net/multi-processing-map-python . Please let me know what you think of it and whether it seems remotely interesting or goofy. -- Kirk Strauser -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
