[Baypiggies] FWD: Parallelism in one line

[Martin Falatic]

Indeed: that's the point made in the first Reddit thread I referenced (via
ThreadPoolExecutor)... which the blog author agreed with in his reply. And
it's been backported to 2.x, though the backport appears to have some bugs
WRT exception handling.


On Fri, January 3, 2014 14:26, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Apart from its unavailability in Python 2, it would seem that the
> Executor abstraction (PEP 3148, concurrent.futures.Executor -- there's
> a thread and a multiprocessing variant) does the same thing and is just as
> easy to use. Isn't it? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/#executor
>
>
> It's probably even been backported to Python 2 by some kind soul. :-)
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Martin Falatic <martin at falatic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Definitely interesting, but the discussion of this article on Reddit
>> gives further food for thought on the pros and cons of using this
>> strategy:
>>
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1tyzw3/parallelism_in_one_line/
>>
>>
>> Note that the article's author is participating in that discussion.
>>
>>
>> A related thread (also with some discussion by the author) can be found
>> here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1u37v2/parallelism_in_one_
>> line/
>>
>> - Marty
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, January 1, 2014 07:36, Aahz wrote:
>>
>>> Raise your hand if you knew that multiprocessing.dummy provided a
>>> multiprocessing API wrapper around threading.Thread:
>>>
>>> https://medium.com/p/40e9b2b36148
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also shows how multiprocessing's map() is the easiest way to do
>>> concurrent programming. -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>
>>> http://www.pythoncraft.com/
>>>
>>>
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