Python threading (was: Re: global interpreter lock not working as it should)

DIG dig.list at telkel.net
Wed Aug 7 14:55:42 EDT 2002


Hi, Martin v. Lowis !

 On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:03:50PM +0200, Martin v. Lowis wrote:

> a-steinhoff at web.de (Armin Steinhoff) writes:
> 
> ] In the moment it makes no sense to use the 'Python threads' for
> ] POSIX systems 'if and only if' you need performance (or real-time
> ] performance).
> 
> Whatever changes you make, they can't increase the performance. If you
> need performance, you better avoid threads. On a single processor,
> threads can only slow down the entire computation.

And ?..


Regards,

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DIG (Dmitri I GOULIAEV)




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