On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 23:54, Nick Coghlan wrote: [...] > The few times I have encountered anyone saying anything resembling "threading > is easy", it was because the full sentence went something like "threading is > easy if you use message passing and copy-on-send or release-reference-on-send > to communicate between threads, and limit the shared data structures to those > required to support the messaging infrastructure". And most of the time there > was an implied "compared to using semaphores and locks directly, " at the > start.
LOL! So threading is easy if you restrict inter-thread communication to message passing... and what makes multi-processing hard is your only inter-process communication mechanism is message passing :-) Sounds like yet another reason to avoid threading and use processes instead... effort spent on threading based message passing implementations could instead be spent on inter-process messaging. -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ 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
