I fwd'd this to a friend with commit access to twisted. hopefully
i'll get a response on clarification.
But from what I understand, the Twisted networking framework works
like this:
The twisted 'reactor' is single threaded. It uses select by
default, you can use poll. The docs suggest that one can specify a
multithreaded reactor, but I'm not quite sure.
The docs also specify a threadpool, and it seems that the deferred
callback system has been implemented into it.
CherryPy is a http server framework for python, and that supports a
single or multi threaded server mode.
On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:42 -0800, Ken Simpson wrote:
Alas, if only the Perl interpreter was truly thread safe and did not
clone a new interpreter for each thread, we could just use
threads... Those Python people have it good in some ways.
Not that good really. As I understand it, the Python interpreter
has a
global lock when using threads. That's probably part of the reason
why
the most popular server framework for Python, Twisted, is single-
threaded.
- Perrin
