On Aug 10, 3:57 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin T. wrote: > > Hello, > > > While I don't pretend to be an authority on the subject, a few days of > > research has lead me to believe that a discussion needs to be started > > (or continued) on the state and direction of multi-threading python. > [...] > > What these seemingly unrelated thoughts come down to is a perfect > > opportunity to become THE next generation language. It is already far > > more advanced than almost every other language out there. By > > integrating stackless into an architecture where tasklets can be > > divided over several parallelizable threads, it will be able to > > capitalize on performance gains that will have people using python > > just for its performance, rather than that being the excuse not to use > > it. > > Aah, the path to world domination. You know you don't *have* to use > Python for *everything*. > True, but Python seems to be the *best* place to tackle this problem, at least to me. It has a large pool of developers, a large standard library, it's evolving, and it's a language I like :). Languages that seamlessly support multi-threaded programming are coming, as are extensions that make it easier on every existent platform. Python has the opportunity to lead that change.
> > Be my guest, if it's so simple. > I knew somebody was going to say that! I'm pretty busy, but I'll see if I can find some time to look into it. > > I doubt that a thread on c.l.py is going to change much. It's the > python-dev and py3k lists where you'll need to take up the cudgels, > because I can almost guarantee nobody is going to take the GIL out of > 2.6 or 2.7. > I was hoping to get a constructive conversation on what the structure of a multi-threaded python would look like. It would appear that this was not the place for that. > Is it even possible > to run threads of the same process at different priority levels on all > platforms? No, it's not, and even fewer allow the scheduler to change the priority dynamically. Linux, however, is one that does. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
