Re: Asynchronous

[Hatta <tmdhat () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
> So while I'm in the process of running a large asynchronous event-driven
> product in a VM in another window, it's a good time to read all sorts of
> things about asynchronous programming.
>
> Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of it, but Chris is, and he's a better
> programmer than me, so we'll leave it at that. Largely, I think people are
> fans of Async because most languages and kernels are terrible at threads.
> Python, for example, does not have threads. "No worky worky", as we say
> around here.

It's not really assertive to say "python does not have threads"
It's just that threads does not work as we expected in CPython
specially (but not only) because of the Global Interpreter Lock.

whatver...

I believe we're moving towards the massive use of threads in a near future
because processors are likely to grow in cores not in speed. with many cores
many threads become reasonable.

I'm pretty sure many will disagree --- that's the fun part of
discussion after all.

-- 
Hatta
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