John Nagle <na...@animats.com> writes: > I know that the CPython thread dispatcher sucks, but I didn't > realize it sucked that bad. Is there a preference for running > threads at the head of the list (like UNIX, circa 1979) or > something like that?
I think it's left up to the OS thread scheduler, Windows in your case. See http://www.dabeaz.com/python/NewGIL.pdf starting around slide 18. One idea that comes to mind is putting a periodic interrupt and signal handler into your main thread, to make sure the GIL gets released every so often. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
