[Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Oct 7 19:45:45 CEST 2005

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005, Bruce Eckel wrote:

I always have a problem with this. After many years of studying concurrency on-and-off, I continue to believe that threading is very difficult (indeed, the more I study it, the more difficult I understand it to be). And I admit this. The comments I sometimes get back are to the effect that "threading really isn't that hard." Thus, I am just too dense to get it.

What I generally say is that threading isn't too hard if you stick with some fairly simple idioms and tools -- and make absolutely certain to follow some rules about sharing data. But it's certainly true that threading (and concurrency) in general is mind-numbingly complex.

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