Martijn Voncken wrote:
IPC can't be faster than threading because you need to convert
python has a GIL , and multicore is the future.
ipc will scale better on multicore processsors.
also, threads may be slower due to internal locking they introduce to
the interpreter. i don't know if this is still true, as this dates back
to 2003, quoting *Erno Kuusela in*:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-April/159177.html
"in addition, enabling threading (creating the first thread) turns on
all the locking machinery in the python interpreter. this causes
everything to slow down somewhat. on my pc, running pystone in a thread
goes about 50% slower than normally."
so as you are concerned about speed, threads may be a very bad idea..
(unless that has been improved since. i think they are usually a bad
idea anyhow so haven't tested)
Martijn.
~Toni
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