On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:06:51AM +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Nathan Hurst <njh@njhurst.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:25:46PM -0700, Alex Gaynor wrote:
No, there currently isn't a way to parallelize building.
Ok. Is it hard or just low priority?
hard. there is some work ongoing, but we need a working STM first ;-)
Thanks for the explanation Alex+Maciej - I'll just get used to waiting. Ok. I'm just learning about python threading (after reading about STMs - I've always used multiprocessing for compute heavy stuff and greenlets for servery stuff) and I tried this simple program: import threading class MyThread(threading.Thread): def run(self): while True: pass thread = MyThread() thread.start() thread.join() now clearly this program is never going to terminate without some kind of external interrupt. But the strange thing is, it doesn't terminate when I use control-C on it either (it does terminate correctly from eclipse.pydev with the stop button): njh $ pypy threadtoy.py ^C ^Z [1]+ Stopped pypy threadtoy.py njh $ kill % [1]+ Stopped pypy threadtoy.py njh $ [1]+ Terminated pypy threadtoy.py why does python and pypy do this? Is it part of the GIL problem? will STM fix it? regards, njh