[Python-3000] threading, part 2 (original) (raw)

Slawomir Nowaczyk slawomir.nowaczyk.847 at student.lu.se
Sat Aug 12 08:22:17 CEST 2006


On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:51:25 -0400 Luis P Caamano <lcaamano at gmail.com> wrote:

#> That's how I feel too Josiah. In some ways, it's the same as writing #> device drivers in a pre-emptable kernel. You can get interrupted and #> pre-empted by the hardware at any freaking time in any piece of code #> and your memory might go away so you better pin it and deal with the #> interrupts. Forget about that and you end up with a nice kernel #> panic. Still, we have all kinds of device drivers on SMP, #> pre-emptable kernels. It can be done.

Of course it can... but do we really want programming in Python3k to be comparable in difficulty to writing device drivers?

-- Best wishes, Slawomir Nowaczyk ( Slawomir.Nowaczyk at cs.lth.se )

Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.



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