Pete's wiseguy thread comment not withstanding, I'll freely admit that I'm usually not interested in participating in online discussions about concurrency due to excessive religious dogma backed by a lack of empirical data or experiments. IMHO, there needs to be more level-minded experimentation, analysis, and discussion. If this is what this list might be about, then it might be worthwhile.
Cheers, Dave On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Peter Portante wrote: > Perhaps we would want to avoid dogma, and have this list provide > understanding of how things work and pros & cons? > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jesse Noller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Peter Fein wrote: > > > Hi- > > > > I started this list & the concurrency section on the wiki > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency after taking one of Dave > > Beazley's classes. Other folks & I wanted a place to discuss the kind > > of issues Brad discusses below, in a general and cross-toolkit > > context. I don't know why it never really took off, though I'd love to > > see it have more life. > > > > Other possible topic includes: Python under Hadoop, MPI, data > > processing pipelines (generators). > > > > Should we just establish "Threads: you're doing it wrong" as a ground > > rule and be done with it? ;-P > > > > --Pete > > > No, given that "Threads: you're doing it wrong" is patently incorrect except > for certain cases. I use them more than I use multiprocessing. :) > > > _______________________________________________ > concurrency-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig > > _______________________________________________ > concurrency-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig _______________________________________________ concurrency-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig
