[Python-ideas] solving multi-core Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > * disallow forking within subinterpreters
>>
>> I love the idea as a whole (if only because the detractors can be told
>> "Just use subinterpreters, then you get concurrency"), but this seems
>> like a tricky restriction. That means no subprocess.Popen, no shelling
>> out to other applications. And I don't know what of other restrictions
>> might limit any given program. Will it feel like subinterpreters are
>> "write your code according to these tight restrictions and it'll
>> work", or will it be more of "most programs will run in parallel just
>> fine, but there are a few things to be careful of"?
>
>
> It wouldn't disallow use of subprocess, only os.fork(). C extension modules
> can alway fork. The restriction being placed in this scheme is: "if your
> extension module code forks from a subinterpreter, the child process MUST
> not return control to Python."
>
> I'm not sure if this restriction would actually be needed or not but I agree
> with it regardless.

Oh! That's fine, then. Sounds good to me!

ChrisA