In article <f9ff1a89-813b-4367-9e95-570ab2bac...@h23g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, =?windows-1252?Q?Jure_Erzno=9Enik?= <jure.erznoz...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Jun 19, 11:59=A0pm, Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry, you're incorrect. I/O Bound threads do in fact, take advantage >> of multiple cores. > >Incorrect. They take advantage of OS threading support where another >thread can run while one is blocked for I/O. That is not equal to >running on multiple cores (though it actually does do that, just that >cores are all not well utilized - sum(x) < 100% of one core). You wil >get better performance running on single core because of the way GIL is >implemented in all cases.
You should put up or shut up -- I've certainly seen multi-core speedup with threaded software, so show us your benchmarks! -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
