Thread performance

[Dan Boitnott]

Moe A wrote:
> I'm writing a multi-threaded app in python that uses pygtk..and
> obviously the performance of subroutines invoked from a thread rather
> than from a GUI callback leave something to be desired.  i cant
> implement a simple lock system because most of the threads are started
> from the various modules i'm using.  so is there some way to
> commandeer the majority of processing power from one of the threads
> without making the gui unresponsive?

Check out this article:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pythrd.html#author1

It describes using generators as substitutes for threads.  This approach 
works by moving the instruction pointer around instead of switching 
contexts on and off the processor.

Dan Boitnott