On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 23:49, James Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I think one thing that could also help is micro threads and/or > greenlet support built in to Python.
Indeed, that would make Python a more appealing platform for concurrency, and provide another possible route for Python projects which will need to scale to more processors in the future. Right now I'm having a difficult time promoting the use of greenlets or gevent for a Python project, and having this built in (or otherwise officially supported) would have greatly the chance of going that route. I'm guessing this is true for quite a few other projects as well. My project does quite a bit of network I/O in addition to significant computations, and Python threads have such a great overhead... greenlets / fibers would have been great! We could perhaps have used Twisted, but that was hardly even considered due to its being notoriously large, complicated and difficult to learn. - Tal Tiano Einat _______________________________________________ concurrency-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig
