On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Francesco Biscani <bluesca...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That would be difficult to substantiate I think. > > > If you look at languages with "true" multithreading, what they provide are > not only the basic building blocks which Python also has (threads, locks, > mutexes, condition variables, etc.), but also a whole conceptual model of > how a multi-threaded abstract machine is supposed to behave. The memory > model, guarantees on instruction reordering by the compiler/interpreter, > definition of the conditions for data races, atomic operations, and all that > jazz. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that Python is currently > lacking a formal model for threading. Even if the GIL were to be removed > from CPython, Python would still lack crucial parts to make it really > useable as a portable multithreaded language.
You changed the topic from "parallel programming" to multi-threading. Multi-threading is not the only paradigm for parallelism... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
