[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jan 8 11:29:39 CET 2013


Le Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:28:25 +0100, "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury at shurup.com> a écrit :

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems > wasn't very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms > have it. Is it still useful for production purposes to configure > --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than > curiosity of mind?

I hope that the intent behind asking this question was more of being curious, rather then considering dropping --without-threads: unfortunately, multithreading was, still is and probably will remain troublesome on many supercomputing platforms.

I was actually asking this question in the hope that we could perhaps simplify our range of build options (and the corresponding C #define's), but you made a convincing point that we should keep the --without-threads option :-)

Thank you

Antoine.



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