Re: [ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

2010-06-25 Thread John Nagle
On 6/25/2010 4:14 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: I only had a couple minutes to look at it (maybe more during the weekend). It looks interesting. I wonder whether Python is really the right host language for it. How do you handle nested objects whose outermost layer is immutable but whose contents are

Re: [ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Rubin
I only had a couple minutes to look at it (maybe more during the weekend). It looks interesting. I wonder whether Python is really the right host language for it. How do you handle nested objects whose outermost layer is immutable but whose contents are potentially mutable? An obvious example is

[ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

2010-06-25 Thread John Nagle
We have just released a proof-of-concept implementation of a new approach to thread management - "newthreading". It is available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/newthreading/ The user's guide is at http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/newthreadingintro.html This is

[ANN]: "newthreading" - an approach to simplified thread usage, and a path to getting rid of the GIL

2010-06-25 Thread John Nagle
We have just released a proof-of-concept implementation of a new approach to thread management - "newthreading". It is available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/newthreading/ The user's guide is at http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/newthreadingintro.html This is