I think usability (from a developer's perspective) is important as well as pure performance.
<fuel>Take the mixed feelings people have about Twisted for example.</fuel> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:51 PM, George Belotsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Dave! > > I would love to see this be entirely data-driven. Mere arguing, is, indeed, > not useful. > > All the best, > > George. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:58 AM, David Beazley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Pete's wiseguy thread comment not withstanding, I'll freely admit that I'm >> usually not interested in participating in online discussions about >> concurrency due to excessive religious dogma backed by a lack of empirical >> data or experiments. IMHO, there needs to be more level-minded >> experimentation, analysis, and discussion. If this is what this list might >> be about, then it might be worthwhile. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> >> On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Peter Portante wrote: >> >> > Perhaps we would want to avoid dogma, and have this list provide >> > understanding of how things work and pros & cons? >> > >> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jesse Noller <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Peter Fein wrote: >> > >> > > Hi- >> > > >> > > I started this list & the concurrency section on the wiki >> > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency after taking one of Dave >> > > Beazley's classes. Other folks & I wanted a place to discuss the kind >> > > of issues Brad discusses below, in a general and cross-toolkit >> > > context. I don't know why it never really took off, though I'd love to >> > > see it have more life. >> > > >> > > Other possible topic includes: Python under Hadoop, MPI, data >> > > processing pipelines (generators). >> > > >> > > Should we just establish "Threads: you're doing it wrong" as a ground >> > > rule and be done with it? ;-P >> > > >> > > --Pete >> > > >> > No, given that "Threads: you're doing it wrong" is patently incorrect >> > except for certain cases. I use them more than I use multiprocessing. :) >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > concurrency-sig mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > concurrency-sig mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig >> >> _______________________________________________ >> concurrency-sig mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig > > > _______________________________________________ > concurrency-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig > > _______________________________________________ concurrency-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig
