[Python-ideas] Fwd: Concurrent safety?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nick Coghlan writes:
 > sjt wrote:

 > > (I don't have a desperate need for high-performance concurrency,
 > > so I take no position on processes + message passing vs. threads
 > > + shared resources.)
 > 
 > Guido and python-dev in general *have* effectively taken a position on
 > that, though (mainly due to Global Interpreter Lock discussions).

Sure, as a matter of "development politics" that's pretty clear.  I'm
sure Mike understands that, too.  (And is frustrated by it!)

My point is that Mike's approach of trying to make *everything* safe
for concurrency seems to point in the direction of process + message
passing, but I don't claim that this proves that processes are in any
sense technically superior, just that his approach needs justification
beyond "hey, we need to do something about concurrency in Python!"