[ZODB-Dev] ZODB4 project plan
Greg Ward
gward@mems-exchange.org
Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:57:13 -0500
[Jeremy, to me]
> I'm not sure why you say that every
> application outgrows the one thread, one transaction policy. I have
> found it works exceedinly well for many applications.
OK, not *every* application. I over-stated the case. But the
one-thread-one-transaction policy is arbitrary and it's just that -- a
*policy*. As a general purpose-library, ZODB should provide mechanism,
not policy, whenever possible.
[Christian channels me]
> Well, in our case, Shane's suggestion is a godsend, because we *don't*
> want multiple threads at all. Perhaps Greg implied that many
> applications want separate transactions running at the same time without
> having separate threads (apps using mainloop and coroutines come to
> mind)
Yes, exactly.
Greg
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