Re: [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python 3000 Status Update (Long!)

2007-06-27 Thread Greg Ewing
Russell E. Owen wrote: > I would personally be happy lose set comprehensions and just use > generator expressions for all comprehension-like tasks. One advantage of the comprehension syntaxes is that the body can be inlined instead of relegated to a lambda, saving the overhead of a Python functio

Re: [Python-3000] An impassioned plea for true multithreading

2007-06-27 Thread Guillaume Proux
My 2 cents... I have really felt the need for real multithreading when I have tried programming multimedia with python (pygame). Doing scene management at the same time than other processes that require quasi realtime (video decode) is just basically impossible (without telling you about the garba

Re: [Python-3000] An impassioned plea for true multithreading

2007-06-27 Thread Giovanni Bajo
On 26/06/2007 20.47, Chris Spencer wrote: > 1. Most people who bought a computer in the past year bought a > dual-core processor with it. Quad-cores are going to take over the > market in 2008. To not be able to take advantage of these extra cores > is an inherent language disadvantage. Yes, y