On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 05:15:34 GMT, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mike Meyer wrote: > > Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Bryan Olson writes: > >> > Trivially, an 'if' statement that depends upon input > >> >>data is statically predictable. Use of async I/O means makes the > >> >>programs execution dependent upon external timing. > >>Mike Meyer wrote: [...] > > >> > [...] I'm calling the tools available in most programming > >> > languages for dealing with it primitive. > >> > We need better tools. > >>Agreed, but if 'select' is someone's idea of the state of the > >>art, they have little clue as to the tools already available. > > > > Well, share! > >Uh, where have you been? I keep explaining that concurrency >systems have improved vastly in recent years. For a long time, >the most sophisticated software services generally have used >multiple lines of execution, and now that's mostly in the form >of threads. No one actually disagrees, but they go right on >knocking the modern methods. I think Mike is asking for references/citations/links to the "concurrency systems" and "modern methods" you are talking about ;-) (I'd be interested too ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
