Speed up with threads

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Have a look at the Queue module.

    raims> I read both the Queue doc and the Aahz slides but I still have
    raims> problems... what goes in the Queue? How to use get() and put(), I
    raims> have to scan ports not to share data... I think

Here's how I'd use Queues in this situation.  Create a fixed set of threads
(make them daemons) which are going to do nothing more than grab a port to
scan from the queue, do something with the results, then repeat.  The main
thread adds port information to the queue.  Once all the ports have been fed
to the queue, the main thread waits for the queue to empty.  Once it's
empty, it exits.  The application as a whole will then exit because the
other threads are daemons.

By having a fixed set of threads to handle the requests you can limit the
number of simultaneous scans running and eliminate the thread creation per
port issue, which is very likely to slow down your application.

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