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

Michael Walter michael.walter at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 17:54:00 CEST 2005

FWIW, the Perl 6 community is also investigating STM, so it appears to be a worthwhile idea for an impure, multi-paradigm language as well.

Regards, Michael

On 9/29/05, Bruce Eckel <BruceEckel-Python3234 at mailblocks.com> wrote:

This paper looks very interesting and promises some good ideas. It also looks like it will require time and effort to digest.

I've only read the first few pages, but one thing that does leap out is at the beginning of section 3, they say: "... a purely-declarative language is a perfect setting for transactional memory." What's not clear to me from this is whether STM will work in a non-declarative language like Python. Thursday, September 29, 2005, 8:12:23 AM, Michael Hudson wrote: > 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

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