In article <pan.2009.02.10.21.58...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au>, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > >As I understand it, there's very little benefit to multi-cores in Python >due to the GIL.
As phrased, your statement is completely wrong. Here's a more correct phrasing: "For threaded compute-bound applications written in pure Python, there's very little benefit to multiple cores." But threaded I/O-bound applications do receive some benefit from multiple cores, and using multiple processes certainly leverages multiple cores. If boosting the performance of a threaded compute-bound application is important, one can always write the critical parts in C/C++. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
