David Ascher wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > True enough, but as Guido pointed out, enabling threads by default would > > immediately make the Mac a second-class citizen. > I'm not sure I buy that argument. There are already thread demos in > the current directory, and no one complains. The windows builds are > already threaded by default, and it's not caused any problems that I > know of. Think of it like enabling the *new* module. =) > > > Has there been an assessment of how hard it would be to add thread > > support to the Mac? > > That's an interesting question, especially since ActiveState lists > it as a machine w/ threads and w/o fork(). Not a Mac programmer, but I recall that when Steve Jobs came back, they published a schedule that said threads would be available a couple releases down the road. Schedules only move one way, so I'd guess ActiveState is premature. Perhaps Christian's stackless Python would enable green threads... (And there are a number of things in the standard distribution which don't work on Windows, either; fork and select()ing on file fds). - Gordon
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