Python threading?

[Paul Rubin]

Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:
> A "one thread per connection" model is doomed from the start -
> therefore, in most applications, I would consider 5 threads a large
> number - particularly when all are actively doing something.  OTOH, if
> you are willing to accept that your first version will accept a max of
> ~20 connections, the brain-power saved by using threads beats the
> additional OS overhead by a mile ;)

The new Linux native thread implementation was recently benchmarked
running 100,000 simultaneous threads on a 1 GB machine.  Starting all
the threads and closing them took around 2 seconds.