2.6, 3.0, and truly independent intepreters

[Terry Reedy]

Andy wrote:

> This is just my second email, please be a little patient. :^)

As a 10-year veteran, I welcome new contributors with new viewpoints and 
information.

> more appealing to commercial software developers.  Hopefully, the
> python dev community doesn't underestimate the dev funding that could
> potentially come in from companies if python grew in certain ways!

This seems to be something of a chicken-and-egg problem.

> So, that said, I represent a company willing to fund the development
> of features that move python towards thread-independent operation.

Perhaps you know of and can persuade other companies to contribute to 
such focused effort.

> No
> software engineer can deny that we're entering a new era of
> multithreaded processing where support frameworks (such as python)
> need to be open minded with how they're used in a multi-threaded
> environment--that's all I'm saying here.

The *current* developers seem to be more interested in exploiting 
multiple processors with multiprocessing.  Note that Google choose that 
route for Chrome (as I understood their comic introduction). 2.6 and 3.0 
come with a new multiprocessing module that mimics the threading module 
api fairly closely.  It is now being backported to run with 2.5 and 2.4.

Advances in multithreading will probably require new ideas and 
development energy.

Terry Jan Reedy