Python Thread Question

N.K nirmalkannan at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 22 07:51:20 EDT 2003


aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote in message news:<b7meoo$mf6$1 at panix2.panix.com>...
> 
> This isn't quite true on a multi-CPU box.  Because I/O releases the GIL,
> the OS can schedule threads to run on all available CPUs.  So it's
> certainly possible for a threaded app to outrun non-blocking I/O.


  Heard that new Intel Processors support Hyper Threading ( HT)
Architecture from which multi-threaded apps can benefit from. Is that
true?




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