> If the problem does not require two way communication, which is > typical of a producer-consumer, it is a lot faster to allow P to fully > run before C is started.
Why do you say it's *a lot* faster. I find that it is a little faster. The only additional overhead from switching forth and back between consumer and producer is the overhead for context switching, which is typically negligible, compared to everything else that is going on. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
