By the way, there is a series of articles about concurrency on ACM Queue which may be interesting for those participating in or just following this discussion:
http://queue.acm.org/listing.cfm?item_topic=Concurrency&qc_type=theme_list&filter=Concurrency&page_title=Concurrency Here is one introductory paragraph from one of the articles: Parallel programming poses many new challenges to the developer, one of which is synchronizing concurrent access to shared memory by multiple threads. Programmers have traditionally used locks for synchronization, but lock-based synchronization has well-known pitfalls. Simplistic coarse-grained locking does not scale well, while more sophisticated fine-grained locking risks introducing deadlocks and data races. Furthermore, scalable libraries written using fine-grained locks cannot be easily composed in a way that retains scalability and avoids deadlock and data races. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
