[Python-Dev] Pythonic concurrency

[Aahz]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005, Bruce Eckel wrote:
>
> I always have a problem with this. After many years of studying
> concurrency on-and-off, I continue to believe that threading is very
> difficult (indeed, the more I study it, the more difficult I
> understand it to be). And I admit this. The comments I sometimes get
> back are to the effect that "threading really isn't that hard." Thus,
> I am just too dense to get it.

What I generally say is that threading isn't too hard if you stick with
some fairly simple idioms and tools -- and make absolutely certain to
follow some rules about sharing data.  But it's certainly true that
threading (and concurrency) in general is mind-numbingly complex.
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