nikhilketkar wrote: > What are the implications of the Global Interpreter Lock in Python > ?
Please have a look at the archives. This topic is brought up anew every few weeks. > Does this mean that Python threads cannot exploit a dual core > processor and the only advantage of using threads is in that > computation and IO-bound operations can continue in parallel ? Not generally, no. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #93: Feature not yet implemented -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list