Embedding: many interpreters OR one interpreter with many thread states ?

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 8 23:00:42 EDT 2005


adsheehan at eircom.net wrote:

> - creating many sub-interpreters (Py_NewInterpreter) with a thread
> state each
> 
> Or
> 
> - creating one interpreter with many thread states (PyThreadState_New)

My understanding is that using multiple interpeters isn't
really supported properly, despite there being apparent
support in the API. So I suggest using a single interpeter
with multiple threads.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg



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