python's thread problem on Linux platform

[robert]

devdoer at gmail.com wrote:

> I found that  multi-threaded program(io-centralize )  runs very slowly
> on linux while the same program   runs very quickly  on windows.If I
> change the thread number to one ,the program runs quickly  on linux, in
> fact the speed is quicker than the multi-threaded version .
> It turns out   that python's multi-thread support on linux has some
> problems.Any comments?
> 

You are probably looping or have other quirks', over-lock-ing ...

Python's thread/threading/Queue stuff is unfortunately Java-ish/ 
OS-mindset and not functional. Thus encourages screwing "ego threads".

Maybe you get things organized frictionless with those 2? :

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491281
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491280

-robert