On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Minesh Patel <min...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a way for multiple tasklets to run in parallel? > > Seems doubtful (though I'm not an expert). > > From the Wikipedia article: "Stackless microthreads are managed by the > language interpreter itself, not the operating system kernel—context > switching and task scheduling is done purely in the interpreter. " > > This suggests that only one microthread is ever really being run at > any given time. I would venture a guess that the lack of "true" > parallel-ness is probably a design decision deeply ingrained into > Stackless and is not changeable. You'd probably have to change to > multiprocessing or threads. >
Thanks Chris, Can you suggest any Python libraries for true parallelism or should I just stick with Python Threads or asyncore Thanks, Minesh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list