Peter Hansen wrote: > My question was in the context of the OP's situation. What possible use > for 1000 OS threads could he have?
Is this a language thing? Surely you realize that "what possible use could <thing> be" carries an insinuation that <thing> is not such a good idea. Possible uses are many and perfectly reasonable, such as building a quick, responsive server like MySQL. > Is the OP's situation IO-bound, > CPU-bound, or just an experiment to see how many threads he can pile on > the machine at one time? The fact that these threads are all sleeping > implies the latter, though what he posted could have been a contrived > example. I'm interested in the real requirements, and whether more than > 1000 threads in this day and age (not some imaginary future) might not > be a poor approach. If you're interested in his requirements, why not just ask him about his requirements? Kind of premature to condemn his approach. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list