overhead of starting threads

[Will McGugan]

Hi,

What is the overhead of starting threads in Python? Currently my app 
starts around 20 threads per second, but I'm considering creating a pool 
of a fixed number of threads and keeping them fed with data. But only if 
it would give me a noticeable performance boost.

Has anyone got any any experience in this area that they could share? - 
before I start investigating myself..

I'm running on Windows, if thats relevant.


Regards,

Will McGugan

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