Re: high performance/threaded applications in Python - your experiences?

2007-06-24 Thread Josiah Carlson
Ivan Voras wrote: > Jay Loden wrote: > >> I was hoping for some experiences that some of you on the list may have had >> in dealing with Python in a high performance and/or threaded environment. In >> essence, I'm wondering how big of a deal the GIL can be in a real-world >> scenario where you

Re: high performance/threaded applications in Python - your experiences?

2007-06-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Jay Loden wrote: > I was hoping for some experiences that some of you on the list may have had > in dealing with Python in a high performance and/or threaded environment. In > essence, I'm wondering how big of a deal the GIL can be in a real-world > scenario where you need to take advantage of

high performance/threaded applications in Python - your experiences?

2007-06-22 Thread Jay Loden
All, In studying Python, I have predictably run across quite a bit of talk about the GIL and threading in Python. As my day job, I work with a (mostly Java) application that is heavily threaded. As such our application takes good advantage of multiple processors and we can often scale through