[stdlib-sig] futures - a new package for asynchronous execution

[Paul Moore]

2009/11/7 Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com>:
>
> On 7 Nov 2009, at 22:06, Paul Moore wrote:
>> I'm not convinced it should go in multiprocessing, though. After all,
>> it uses threading rather than multiple processes.
>
>
> Actually, you can choose weather to use threads or processes. The current
> implementation includes a ThreadPoolExecutor and a ProcessPoolExecutor
> (which is an argument to making it a separate package) and should be
> abstract enough to accommodate other strategies in the future.

That's my point. Multiprocessing is about just that - multiprocessing.
I wouldn't use it (or even think of looking in it) if I wanted to
write a single-process multithreaded program (which is what I usually
do on Windows). I was responding to the suggestion that your futures
module would work as a component of the multiprocessing package.

Actually, it's a pity that things like the Pool class only exist in
multiprocessing. A threaded version of that would be very useful to me
as well.

Paul.