Threads vs Processes

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-07-26 19:10:14, Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:

> Ah, alright.  So if that's the case, why would you use python threads 
> versus spawning processes?  If they both point to the same address space 
> and python threads can't run concurrently due to the GIL what are they 
> good for?

Nothing runs concurrently on a single core processor (pipelining aside).
Processes don't run any more concurrently than threads. The scheduling is
different, but they still run sequentially.

Gerhard