Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would be convenient, yes, but the question isn't always 'threads or > processes?' In my experience (not to say that it is more or better than > anyone else's), when going multi-process, the expense on some platforms > is significant enough to want to persist the process (this is counter to > my previous forking statement, but its all relative). And sometimes one > *wants* multiple threads running in a single process handling multiple > requests.
Yes, indeed. This is all confused by the way that POSIX (and Microsoft) threads have become essentially just processes with shared resources. If one had a system with real, lightweight threads, the same might well not be so. Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
