1 What's the Point?

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Eric Snow edited this page Sep 5, 2018 · 15 revisions

problems to solve
- deficiencies in existing concurrency models
- CPython multi-core parallelism is stifled by the GIL
benefits
- true multi-core parallelism
- human-friendly concurrency model
  - simplicity of threading, but with opt-in (safe) sharing
  - focus on isolated threads of execution
use cases
- web requests (see mod_wsgi & JS web workers)
- CPU-intensive code
- general concurrency
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motivation (for the feature; for the project?)
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possible downsides
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Deficiencies in Existing Concurrency Models

Threads

easy to cause race conditions
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Multiprocessing (fork, subprocess, etc.)

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Async

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Stand-alone Value of Some Changes

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