multithreading concept

[sturlamolden]

On Feb 7, 8:03 pm, Sergei Organov <o... at javad.com> wrote:

> I fail to see how threads in general could perform worse than
> processes. I do understand that processes are inherently more
> safe/secure, but when it comes to speed I really can't imagine why it
> could happen that threads perform worse (poor threads implementation and
> programming practices aside). Care to give some references?

I believe Nick Maclaren explained that to you (and me) on January 10
and 11 this group. As far as I have understood the issue, it has to do
with poor threads implementations. Look that up on Google groups and
re-read the discussion (or ask Nick Maclaren as he is far more
competent than me).

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/332083cdc8bc44b