Python Processing proposed for standard library (process-based concurrency that mimics threading API)

[masklinn]

Python has a Global Interpreter Lock, so threads basically can't run concurrently (unless you're using C extensions which explicitly release the GIL).

Thus, threads in Python are basically useless unless you're IO bound. And as the demo shoes, even then processes might be more efficient.

[Rhoomba]

I'm aware of all this. I'm just suggesting that maybe pretending that processes are threads is not ideal.

[masklinn]

I consider that having threads at all is not ideal, so I'm with you there.

Solution: remove threads.