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

[Jesse Noller]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Frank Wierzbicki <fwierzbicki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:
>
>> Right now multiprocessing is ahead of threading in terms of features.
>> Pool.map() in particular is a pretty powerful idiom that has no equivalent
>> in threading.
> This is the area where I am most worried. Though multiprocessing is a
> drop in replacement for threading, threading is not currently a drop
> in replacement for multiprocessing. If multiprocessing doesn't make
> sense for Jython and we need to tell our users that they should just
> use threading, threading needs to do everything that multiprocessing
> does... or maybe there needs to be a higher level package?

The only reason in my view that this is not the case is because no one
has submitted a patch, myself included, it's been on my wish list for
some time.

There is nothing blocking that, AFAIK.