[ale] Threading? (was: Re: [ale] C#)

[Jeff Hubbs]

OK, I've held back my ignorance about as long as I can.

Can you explain to me "threading?"  I think I stopped coding a little
too early in life (Pascal-on-VAX/VMS-era) to really understand what all
this is about.  My crude understanding is that threading is where one
process branches off into multiple "threads" of execution, the
distinction between processes and threads being that threads all execute
in the same context.  Is my conceptualization more or less correct?

And can you elaborate a bit about "python has way worse threading than
java?"  What constitutes "worse?"  Is there an underlying reason why
that is so?

- Jeff

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 20:10, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:19, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> > Do it in python. You get an even easier language to use than java, all 
> > the platform independence (and perhaps more), and can always plug in 
> > some C/C++ stuff in the backend if performance becomes an issue. I'm 
> > doing all my web development in python now using mod_python and 
> > quixote. Database connectivity is great as well which is better than 
> > I can say for java or C# (although I'll be interested when a good 
> > implementation of jdo comes out).
> 
> AAK!  I love Python, but don't do it in python.  Unless version 2.2 has 
> changed things dramatically, python has way worse threading than java.  Java 
> at least uses native threads, so they are scheduled efficiantly.  Last I 
> heard python did it's own threading and a highly threaded program where the 
> threads are I/O bound will just crawl.  This was something that killed us 
> when using ZOPE, another extremely cool program.
> 
> --Michael
> 
> > 
> >       good luck & let us know what you do,
> > 
> >               Ben Scherrey
> > 
> > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 02:54 pm, cfowler wrote:
> > > Right now I'm at the beginning of a large Java project.  I'm just
> > > desiging forms for now.  But this is just graphics.  I'm doing
> > > research as to the best way to go.  I need to be scalable when it
> > > comes to threads and I believe that Java may bite me in the end. I
> > > want to handle 100+ TCP connections into one client.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:48, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > > cfowler wrote:
> > > > > Anyone here using C# on Linux?
> > > >
> > > > Why would you?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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