Le Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:28:25 +0100, "Yury V. Zaytsev" <y...@shurup.com> a écrit :
> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems > > wasn't very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms > > have it. Is it still useful for production purposes to configure > > --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than > > curiosity of mind? > > I hope that the intent behind asking this question was more of being > curious, rather then considering dropping --without-threads: > unfortunately, multithreading was, still is and probably will remain > troublesome on many supercomputing platforms. I was actually asking this question in the hope that we could perhaps simplify our range of build options (and the corresponding C #define's), but you made a convincing point that we should keep the --without-threads option :-) Thank you Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
