multi threading in multi processor (computer)
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Feb 9 14:09:06 EST 2005
In article <1107961698.225373.247440 at l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
ajikoe at gmail.com <ajikoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Is anyone has experiance in running python code to run multi thread
>parallel in multi processor. Is it possible ?
Yes. The GIL prevents multiple Python threads from running
simultaneously, but C extensions can release the GIL; all I/O functions
in the standard library do, so threading Python makes sense for e.g. web
spiders. See the slides on my website for more info.
>Can python manage which cpu shoud do every thread?
Nope.
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