In article <mailman.8969.1396839923.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> The *whole point* of threading (AFAIK) is to share memory and other > process-distinct resources. There is (or at least, was) another reason. Creating a new process used to be far more expensive than creating a new thread. In modern Unix kernels, however, the cost difference has become much less, so this is no longer a major issue. I agree wholeheartedly with Ben when he says: > Parallel processing is achieved much more reliably and deterministically > with separate processes. Threading makes it incredibly difficult to reason about program execution. It's not just that things happen asynchronously, the control flow changes happen at arbitrary times. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
