using threads with for-loops

[Mathias Waack]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Mathias Waack wrote:
>> Have you ever seen machines with more than one CPU?
> 
> Why yes, I have!  And have *you* seen an implementation
> of Python which will effectively use those multiple CPUs
> in code like that above which runs in a single process?

Ok, I've lost: I haven't seen such implementation and don't know much
about the thread-layer of Python. 
 
>> The code above is perfectly suited for parallelization.
> 
> Yes, it is.  Once you take into account implementation
> issues (e.g. the GIL), would you still think so?

Depends. Which means: don't know. If I would start thinking about
creating threads to gain a speedup, I would even think about
switching to another programming language. 

Mathias