Hi All,
Thank you for your commentaries.
In the meantime, I read up in Python-Dev and came across a post by
Johnatan LaCour which kind of nicely sums up the state of affairs:
"Its really a shame. There seems to be some consensus about
multi-processing, but not a whole lot of interest in making it
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, malv wrote:
> Maybe this is too simplistic, but given two programs, one in Python the
> other in Java or C#. Would this mean that running the latter on a dual
> core processor would significantly increase execution speed, whereas the
> Python program would be running in one
malv wrote:
> Maybe this is too simplistic, but given two programs, one in Python the
> other in Java or C#. Would this mean that running the latter on a dual
> core processor would significantly increase execution speed, whereas
> the Python program would be running in one processor only without a
The short answer is, "maybe". Python will be CPU bound but not I/O
bound. This means you can have multiple threads concurrently
performing I/O. On the other hand, if you have two threads which are
CPU bound, only one will run at a time.
Having said that, there are plenty of ready work arounds.
Thank you Xavier.
Maybe this is too simplistic, but given two programs, one in Python the
other in Java or C#. Would this mean that running the latter on a dual
core processor would significantly increase execution speed, whereas
the Python program would be running in one processor only without any
malv wrote:
> Of course, multiprocessing has been used for many years but this always
> involved a much higher level of sophistication on the part of the
> designers. This point seems to be largely hidden from the public,
> ignorant and semi-ignorant, by the chip manufacturers.
> Will new languages
Multiprocessing has been pushed into the field as the chip
manufacturers can no longer deliver as they were used to for many
years.
The general public has been conditioned to believe that 1 + 1 = 2 but
this is in fact not that simple.
Although software manufacturers can with some effort adapt packa
