On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > On 26/06/2010 07:11, John Nagle wrote: >> >> We have just released a proof-of-concept implementation of a new >> approach to thread management - "newthreading". It is available >> for download at >> >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/newthreading/ >> >> The user's guide is at >> >> http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/newthreadingintro.html > > The user guide says: > > The suggested import is > > from newthreading import * > > The import * form is considered bad practise in *general* and should not be > recommended unless there is a good reason. This is slightly off-topic for > python-dev, although I appreciate that you want feedback with the eventual > goal of producing a PEP - however the introduction of free-threading in > Python has not been hampered by lack of synchronization primitives but by > the difficulty of changing the interpreter without unduly impacting single > threaded code. >
I asked John to drop a message here for this project - so feel free to flame me if anyone. This *is* relevant, and I'd guess fairly interesting to the group as a whole. jesse _______________________________________________ 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
