I'm working on an application that makes heavy use of Queue objects in a multithreaded environment.
By "heavy" I mean "millions of calls to put and get, constituting ~20% of the app's run time." The profiler thinks that a significant amount of time is spent in this code -- not just a consumer waiting for a producer, but actual _empty, notify calls, etc. Would it be worth the time to write a CQueue module with pthread_cond instead of Python Condition objects, etc? I don't really have a gut feeling for how much bang-for-the-loc C optimization might give: twice as fast? 5x as fast? thanks, -Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list