On 2006-07-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never understood the aversion people seem to have to >> threads. > > Perhaps because with threads, data is shared by default. > Whereas with processes, it is private by default, and needs to > be explicitly shared if you want that.
Only global data is shared. I guess if you use a lot of global data that's an issue. I tend not to. The problem with processes is that sharing data is hard. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are you mentally here at at Pizza Hut?? visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list