[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 15 02:19:21 CEST 2008


Andrew McNabb wrote:

> If it made people feel better, maybe it should be called threading2
> instead of multiprocessing.

I think that errs in the other direction, making it sound
like just another way of doing single-process threading,
which it's not.

Maybe "multicore" would help give the right impression?

(Still allows for networking -- nobody says all the cores
have to be on the same machine.:-)

-- 
Greg


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