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[Aahz]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010, Asher Langton wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Aahz wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010, Tung Wai Yip wrote:
>>>
>>> I think my experience tells me don't build multi-threaded
>>> applications in Python ;-)
>>
>> Why?  I've had about equal trouble with multi-processing and
>> multi-threading.
>
> In short: multi-threading is really bad in Python 2.x when the threads  
> are CPU-bound.

Absolutely.  Well, almost -- it's still really good for creating a
responsive GUI application.  See my Fibonacci example in my threads
tutorial.

Nevertheless, that's completely different from "don't use threads".

PS: you can remove the "2.x" from your comment; even if the Unladen
Swallow people improve GIL handling, it's almost certain that CPU-bound
threads will still be subpar.
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