On Feb 16, 9:34 am, rushen...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi everybody, > I am an engineer. I am trying to improve my software development > abilities. I have started programming with ruby. I like it very much > but i want to add something more. According to my previous research i > have designed a learning path for myself. It's like something below. > 1. Ruby (Mastering as much as possible) > 2. Python (Mastering as much as possible) > 3. Basic C++ or Basic Java > And the story begins here. As i search on the net, I have found that > because of the natural characteristics of python such as GIL, we are > not able to write multi threaded programs.
You are likely to find a lot of 'tick-list' type of comparison data on the web that either needs a lot of knowledge to interpret, or is misleading/wrong or all three! Their are several versions of Python out their such as Ironpython, Stackless Python, Jython as well as CPython - the main Python release. They have different threading capabilities, but compilers of feature comparison tick-lists tend to just stick to what CPython can do. As an aside; if you were thinking of using threading for performance reasons, then its best to first think of improving your general ability to explore different algorithms. A change to an algorithm often has the most impact on the performance of code. A better single threaded, single process algorithm can offer better performaance than throwing threadds or multiple processes alone when using a poor underlying algorithm. I was just exploring different ways of solving a problem on my blog: http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2009/02/comparison-of-python-solutions-to.html (But no parallel solutions were attempted). Have fun programming! - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
