On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Mutliprocessing means, data copying, talking to each other through PIPES, > > also it has its issues with running on Windows (all function calls should > be > > pickelable) > > > > Threads seems pretty stable on most platforms where Python runs. > > Threads won't help you much because of the Python GIL. > > Regards, > BG > > -- > Baishampayan Ghose > b.ghose at gmail.com > ' > The GIL is only limited to one interpreter. GIL comes into picture because Threads in python create a new interpreter context, so the same interpreter switches to new byte codes. The original idea was to create a new interpreter for each thread, each one with its own GIL !!!. All within the same process. Vishal _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
