[concurrency] about the concurrency-sig list

[Jesse Noller]

On Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Peter Fein wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> I started this list & the concurrency section on the wiki
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency after taking one of Dave
> Beazley's classes. Other folks & I wanted a place to discuss the kind
> of issues Brad discusses below, in a general and cross-toolkit
> context. I don't know why it never really took off, though I'd love to
> see it have more life.
> 
> Other possible topic includes: Python under Hadoop, MPI, data
> processing pipelines (generators).
> 
> Should we just establish "Threads: you're doing it wrong" as a ground
> rule and be done with it? ;-P
> 
> --Pete
> 
No, given that "Threads: you're doing it wrong" is patently incorrect except for certain cases. I use them more than I use multiprocessing. :)