On Thursday 26 April 2007 09:16, Louise Hoffman wrote: > Dear readers, > > I was wondering, if Python in the foerseeable future will allocate one > CPU core just for the interpreter, so heavy Python operations does > slow down the OS? > > It seams to me like a perfect use for a CPU core =)
Are you talking about CPU affinity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_affinity) or an actual CPU that can directory execute Python byte code? If the former, CPython only uses one CPU core right now because it's threads are all internal, and do not spawn system threads (IIRC). If the latter, I don't think that would work very well because then, e.g., C extensions wouldn't work very well as they could not be executed by a Python Byte-code CPU. j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list