On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:26:59PM +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
On 24/06/15 07:01, Eric Snow wrote:
In return, my question is, what is the level of effort to get fork+IPC to do what we want vs. subinterpreters? Note that we need to accommodate Windows as more than an afterthought
Windows is really the problem. The absence of fork() is especially hurtful for an interpreted language like Python, in my opinion.
UNIX is really the problem. The absence of tiered interrupt request levels, memory descriptor lists, I/O request packets (Irps), thread agnostic I/O, non-paged kernel memory, non-overcommitted memory management, universal page/buffer cache, better device driver architecture and most importantly, a kernel architected around waitable events, not processes, is harmful for efficiently solving contemporary optimally with modern hardware. VMS got it right from day one. UNIX did not. :-) Trent.