Talin wrote: > Thought experiment: Suppose you were writing and brand-new dynamic > language today, designed to work efficiently on multi-processor systems. > Forget all of Python's legacy implementation details such as GILs and > refcounts and such. What would it look like, and how well would it > perform? (And I don't mean purely functional languages a la Erlang.)
Although I wouldn't make it purely functional, I think I'd take some ideas from things like Erlang and Occam. In particular, I'd keep the processes/threads/whatever as separated as possible, communicating only via well- defined channels having copy semantics for mutable objects. Anything directly shared between processes (code objects, classes, etc.) would be read-only, and probably exempt from refcounting to enable access without locking. Hmmm... guess I'll have to go away and design PyLang now. :-) -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
