[Haskell-cafe] Re: Python's big challenges, Haskell's big advantages?

On 2008-09-17, Arnar Birgisson wrote:

Hi Manlio and others,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 14:58, Manlio Perillo wrote:

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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Shuttleworth-Python-needs-to-focus-on-fut...

"cloud computing, transactional memory and future multicore processors"

Multicore support is already "supported" in Python, if you use multiprocessing, instead of multithreading.

Well, I'm a huge Python fan myself, but multiprocessing is not really a solution as much as it is a workaround. Python as a language has no problem with multithreading and multicore support and has all primitives to do conventional shared-state parallelism. However, the most popular /implementation/ of Python sacrifies this for performance, it has nothing to do with the language itself.

Huh. I see multi-threading as a workaround for expensive processes, which can explicitly use shared memory when that makes sense. -- Aaron Denney -><-