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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu May 15 03:48:15 CEST 2008


At 12:19 PM 5/15/2008 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>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?

Sounds like a marketing win to me, since it directly addresses the 
"python doesn't do multicore" meme.



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list