Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to restart this discussion; I didn't mean to put forth active > objects as "the" solution, only that it seems to be one of the better, > more OO solutions that I've seen so far. > > What I'd really like to figure out is the "pythonic" solution for > concurrency. Guido and I got as far as agreeing that it wasn't > threads. > > Here are my own criteria for what such a solution would look like:
Just because I've been mentioning it everywhere else since I read it, have you seen this paper: http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/stm/ ? I don't know how applicable it would be to Python but it's well worth the time it takes to read. Cheers, mwh -- This makes it possible to pass complex object hierarchies to a C coder who thinks computer science has made no worthwhile advancements since the invention of the pointer. -- Gordon McMillan, 30 Jul 1998 _______________________________________________ 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
