Python threading?

[Aahz]

In article <f9Pi9.10275$Lg2.2191294 at news2.news.adelphia.net>,
Robert Oschler <Oschler at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>Also, what is a reasonable number of threads to expect to be able to run
>before context switching overhead becomes a problem (I'm using a PIII 500
>Mhz with 512MB ram if that helps).

It depends.  For pure Python-based computation, more than one thread
will cost you more than you gain.  If it's almost pure I/O (file or
socket stuff), you might be able to use as many as a couple of hundred
threads.  Mostly, you're probably best off somewhere between five and
thirty threads, depending on what you're doing.
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