[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Matt Joiner]

This. The process support is pretty good with multiprocessing but the
coroutines are missing.
On Feb 10, 2012 5:30 PM, "Mark Shannon" <mark at hotpy.org> wrote:

>
> There are a lot of things covered in this thread.
> I want to address 2 of them.
>
> 1. Garbage Collection.
>
> Python has garbage collection. There is no free() function in Python,
> anyone who says that Python does not have GC is talking nonsense.
> CPython using reference counting as its means of implementing GC.
>
> Ref counting has different performance characteristics from tracing GC,
> but it only makes sense to consider this is the context of overall
> Python performance.
> One key disadvantage of ref-counting is that does not play well with
> threads, which leads on to...
>
> 2. Global Interpreter Lock and Threads.
>
> The GIL is so deeply embedded into CPython that I think it cannot be
> removed. There are too many subtle assumptions pervading both the VM and
> 3rd party code, to make truly concurrent threads possible.
>
> But are threads the way to go?
> Javascript does not have threads. Lua does not have threads.
> Erlang does not have threads; Erlang processes are implemented (in the
> BEAM engine) as coroutines.
>
> One of the Lua authors said this about threads:
> (I can't remember the quote so I will paraphrase)
> "How can you program in a language where 'a = a + 1' is not deterministic?"
> Indeed.
>
> What Python needs are better libraries for concurrent programming based on
> processes and coroutines.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
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