On 3/22/07, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/22/07, Talin <talin@acm.org> wrote:
I would like to direct your attention to a presentation that was given by Mr. Herb Sutter on the subject of concurrency support in programming languages. It's a long video, but I would urge you to watch at least the first five minutes of it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7625918717318948700&q=herb+sutter
Thanks for the excellent summary.
I won't try to summarize Brendan Eich's February blog entry on this topic, because it's short enough and worth reading:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/threads_suck.html
Right. I saw Sutter give this talk (or a very similar one) in Oxford last April, and I'm thoroughly unconvinced that Python is doomed unless it adds more thread support. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)