Um, talk about a whopper of a topic change. None of that is on the table. Maybe for Python 4. And certainly not in web-sig.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > Not sure this discussion belongs here but since you asked: > > I think it should have takes three/four more bold steps: > 1) address the GIL issue completely by removing reference counting > 2) add more support for lightweight threads (like stackless, erlang and go) > 3) perhaps allow some mechanism for tainting data and do restricted > execution > 4) change name to avoid confusion > ... and yet stress that it was almost 100% compatible with existing python > code. > > I think a lot more people would have jumped on it from outside the existing > community. > The future is in multi core processors and lightweight threads. > > Of course I am not a developer and I do realize these things may be hard to > accomplish. > I also trust Guido's judgement more than my own in this respect so consider > mine a wish more than a realistic suggestion. > > Massimo > > > On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Ty Sarna wrote: > >> On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >>>> My experience in various >>>> communities suggests that naming the new totally-bw-incompat thing the >>>> same as the old thing weakens both the new thing and the old thing, >>> >>> I share the same experience. >> >> Interesting. Do you feel that Python 3.x should have been named something >> other than Python? >> >> I think that would rather have weakened both 3.x and 2.x by suggesting a >> fork, placing the two in competition, when the goal was to have one >> supersede the other, as is also the case here. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com