In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-07-21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gel >> wrote: >> >>> I am attempting to understand threads to use in a network app which I >>> am writing. >> >> It is written, somewhere in the philosophy of *nix programming, that >> threads are a performance hack, to be avoided wherever possible. Use >> processes in preference to threads. > > I've never understood the aversion people seem to have to > threads.
Perhaps because with threads, data is shared by default. Whereas with processes, it is private by default, and needs to be explicitly shared if you want that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
