On 9/20/05, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
I don't know that any chips are designed with threading in mind. Fast threading benefits from fast context switches which benefits from small register sets. I believe the trend is towards ever large register sets. Also, multiple processors with shared memory don't scall all that well; multiple processors with explicit IPC channels scale much better. All arguments for multi-processing and against multi-threading. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
