[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu May 27 18:16:38 CEST 2010

On Fri, 28 May 2010 02:05:14 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Executors and thread pools are not the same thing. I might create a thread pool for anything. An executor will always have a specific execution model associated with it (whether it be called futures, as in this case, or runnables or something else).

I'm sorry, but what is the specific execution model you are talking about, and how is it different from what you usually do with a thread pool? Why would you do something other with a thread pool than running tasks and (optionally) collecting their results?

Thanks

Antoine.

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