Threads not Improving Performance in Program

Vijayendra Bapte vijayendra.bapte at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 01:34:20 EDT 2009


On Mar 20, 4:21 am, Tim Rowe <digi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for your response. I did not realize that. That seems like a
> > huge limitation for such a great language.
> > I will look into forking off processes instead of using threads.
>
> If that's what you need to do, yes it is. If it isn't, no it's not. No
> language is optimum for all possible applications, each one has
> different compromises. You've just discovered one of Python's.
>
> --
> Tim Rowe

try this: http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing

- Vijayendra



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