Hi Octavian, hi all, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
It is also very important to use threads in a app that uses a GUI, and I don't know how easy is to use threads under Python, but under Perl is not very easy, and the apps that use threads consume very many resources.
I agree. Some form of concurrency is extremely important for GUI apps. I can't tell how easy or hard it is to use threads in Python, but it slightly bothers me that they can't use multiple CPU cores. Not that this is a problem for many applications...
Anyhow. When I wrote a lengthy post on use.perl.org about Perl threads, it was brought to my attention that very capable people are working on making Coros work preemptively. That would -- as far as I can tell -- effectively give use Python-like threads. There's still a lot of issues to be ironed out, but I'm confident the people who're working on it will see this through.
Cheers, Steffen
