Multi-threading Python

Rob Kroeger (rjkroege@espresso.UWaterloo.CA)
Sat, 4 Feb 1995 18:48:54 GMT

How hard would it be (or is it already done in Python 1.2) to make the
Python interpreter truly multi-threaded. I.E., Several interpreter
threads and several additional compiled threads would be running at
the same time.

I have been thinking that a multi-threaded Python interpreter would
make a great window system in the style of NeWS - the multiple threads
are obviously to allow different client connections to have different
context and permit a style of coding that lets little threads block on
absent user-intput events.

Rob Kroeger
Computer Graphics Lab
University of Waterloo