On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Tim Lesher wrote: > On 9/19/05, Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was disappointed that that article (hey, it was the only issue of > > ddj I've ever actually bought! :) didn't consider any concurrency > > models other than shared memory threading. > > The problem is that, for all its limitations, shared-memory threading > is the most popular concurrency model on the most popular operating > system, so future hardware platforms targeting that system will be > optimizing for that case. > > We can either rail against the sea, or accept it.
Hmm, that's an interesting point. Aside from that point I tend to agree with Guido: threading is not the only, nor the best, concurrency model. But maybe these chips designed with threading in mind blow that argument out of the water. I don't know enough to know whether that's true or not... John _______________________________________________ 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
