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The name Candygram is actually an acronym for ``the Candygram Acronym Does Not
Yield a Good Reference to Anything Meaningful.''
Yes, you are quite observant. In order to form a compromise with the French
acronym, which is CANYDGRAM, the Candygram committee standardized the
official acronym as CANDYGRAM.
This question produces an outrageous amount of heated debate. Some claim that
you pronounce it with short A's, as in tomato, while others claim that you
pronounce it with long A's, as in potato. Both sides, however, are completely
wrong; the correct pronunciation for Candygram is ``throat warbler mangrove.''
The short answer is that it creates a thread. In Erlang, the spawn()
function creates a microthread but calls it a ``process''. Since Python does not
yet support microthreads, the Candygram spawn() function creates a
standard thread instead and likewise calls it a ``process''. Despite the
terminology, no new operating system processes are ever created. Refer to the
overview in section 2 for further explanation about the
terminology.
Since Candygram's spawn() function creates a new thread, it depends
on how many threads your operating system can reliably handle. Most operating
systems can comfortably handle several dozen threads.
Future versions of Candygram may support microthreads, which would allow you to
spawn thousands of processes.
