Jeremy> I'm not sure I understand how to distinguish between I/O bound
Jeremy> threads and CPU bound threads.
I don't know that we can (people writing bits of Python which operate on
threads). I suspect a useful distinction though is that an I/O bound thread
mostly gives up the CPU to wait on an I/O device, while a CPU bound thread
is mostly "evicted" from the CPU by the OS scheduler. (Though I sort of
suspect you already understand this textbook definition.) Is that what
you're referring to by "not sure I understand"?
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