Andy wrote:
This is just my second email, please be a little patient. :^)
As a 10-year veteran, I welcome new contributors with new viewpoints and information.
more appealing to commercial software developers. Hopefully, the python dev community doesn't underestimate the dev funding that could potentially come in from companies if python grew in certain ways!
This seems to be something of a chicken-and-egg problem.
So, that said, I represent a company willing to fund the development of features that move python towards thread-independent operation.
Perhaps you know of and can persuade other companies to contribute to such focused effort.
No software engineer can deny that we're entering a new era of multithreaded processing where support frameworks (such as python) need to be open minded with how they're used in a multi-threaded environment--that's all I'm saying here.
The *current* developers seem to be more interested in exploiting multiple processors with multiprocessing. Note that Google choose that route for Chrome (as I understood their comic introduction). 2.6 and 3.0 come with a new multiprocessing module that mimics the threading module api fairly closely. It is now being backported to run with 2.5 and 2.4.
Advances in multithreading will probably require new ideas and development energy.
Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
