On 9/18/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/17/05, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > c. Since time is needed to iron out bugs (and perhaps also to reimplememt > > some pieces of code "from scratch"), very early in the life of Python 3 > > seems like the least-worst time to begin work on such a change. > > > > I realize that not all algorithms (nor all computational problems) scale > > well to MP hardware. Is it feasible to usefully compile both MP and a UP > > binaries from one Python source code base? > > That's an understatement. I expect that *most* problems (even most > problems that we will be programming 10-20 years from now) get little > benefit out of MP.
Some are saying it won't be a matter of choice if we want to get the software to run faster (you know, that "MORE MORE MORE!" thing we all seem to suffer from): http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software Herb Sutter March 2005 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
