[Python-Dev] New PEP: 319

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk@shore.net
Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:55:25 -0400


Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> In any project that is multi-threaded, most bugs will come from
> threading issues.  This is regardless of programming language -- it's
> a deep, as yet ununderstood property of threads.

I'll second that.  They require a different and paranoid viewpoint :-\
They're hard to debug and it's difficult to assure good coverage when
testing.  I've also seen new problems arise when switching to a faster
processor.
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KBK