Threading with queues

[Gib Bogle]

Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 10:47 AM, Gib Bogle wrote:
>>> This is indented over one indentation level too much. You want it to
>>> be at the same level as the for above. Here, its at the same level
>>> with "t" -- meaning this entire loop gets repeated five times.
>>>
>>> I sorta really recommend a tab width of 4 spaces, not 2 :) At 2, its
>>> _really_ hard (especially if you're newer to Python) to see these
>>> kinds of issues and since indentation is program logic and structure
>>> in Python, that's bad... especially since your comment is indented to
>>> the right level, but the code isn't :)
>>>
>>> --S
>>
>> It turns out that this code isn't a great demo of the advantages of
>> threading, on my system anyway. The time taken to execute doesn't vary
>> much when the number of threads is set anywhere from 1 to 6.
> 
> it does in mine:
> 
> Elapsed Time: 7.47399997711 (with one thread)
> Elapsed Time: 1.90199995041 (with five threads)
> 
> what sort of weird machine are you in?

Hmmm, interesting.  I am running Windows XP on Intel quad core hardware, Q6600. 
  And you?