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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by amrx101 on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:25AM (#36939090)
I dont really partake in programming "wars", but the idea of launching a set of separate processes instead of separate threads to do a bunch of IOs has always seem to be weird to me. Yes, I have built software using Python. Yes, I have done things as you suggest. Now I use asyncio, since the syntax has matured and I finally understand coroutines, runners, tasks etc. Lets see where the GIL less Python takes us.
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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by da39a3ee on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:03AM (#36941938)
I'm confused. If you're doing a "bunch of IOs" then that's the situation where people use threads in Python, not processes. The argument for processes in Python is CPU-bound workloads.
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