Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'Not trying to start a fight here, I'm just curious about the > current state of that art. It is the case today that all > modern language threading is realized over a kernel implementation > of threading that behaves as you suggest?
Certainly not. See Erlang, Haskell, Concurrent ML, etc. The low level i/o in the runtime systems for those languages has to be written to never block, but the payback is much lighter weight user threads. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list