On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 01:34, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the example that comes to my mind is > embedding a Python interpreter in an existing nonPython programme. > > My pet one-day-in-the-future example is mutt, whose macro language is... > crude. And mutt is single threaded. > > However, it is easy to envisage a monolithic multithreaded programme > which has use for Python subinterpreters to work on the larger > programme's in-memory data structures. > > I haven't a real world example to hand, but that is the architectural > situation where I'd consider multiprocessing to be inappropriate or > infeasible because the target data are all in the one memory space. Vim would be a very good example of this. Vim has Python interpreter support, but multiprocessing would not be viable as you say. And from my recollection, experiments with threading didn't end well when I tried them :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/X33AUGHKJFOP2AMNQFM7ES6IRDPTSMNO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
