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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Sep 29 16:12:23 CEST 2005

Bruce Eckel <BruceEckel-Python3234 at mailblocks.com> writes:

I'd like to restart this discussion; I didn't mean to put forth active objects as "the" solution, only that it seems to be one of the better, more OO solutions that I've seen so far.

What I'd really like to figure out is the "pythonic" solution for concurrency. Guido and I got as far as agreeing that it wasn't threads. Here are my own criteria for what such a solution would look like:

Just because I've been mentioning it everywhere else since I read it, have you seen this paper:

http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/stm/

? I don't know how applicable it would be to Python but it's well worth the time it takes to read.

Cheers, mwh

-- This makes it possible to pass complex object hierarchies to a C coder who thinks computer science has made no worthwhile advancements since the invention of the pointer. -- Gordon McMillan, 30 Jul 1998

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