> Are you talking about CPU affinity > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_affinity) or an actual CPU that can > directory execute Python byte code? If the former, CPython only uses one > CPU core right now because it's threads are all internal, and do not spawn > system threads (IIRC). If the latter, I don't think that would work very > well because then, e.g., C extensions wouldn't work very well as they could > not be executed by a Python Byte-code CPU.
Have I understood CPU affinity correct, that it is similar to SMP/ NUMA, only that I can force a process/thread to a cpu core? In regards to forcing the Python virtual machine (thanks Michael for the explanation=) ), is the problem that the "OS core" and the "VM core" would need to copy each others cache/exchange data too often? Hugs, Louise -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
