On Feb 5, 12:26 am, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 feb, 03:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Some timing stats: On Windows XP, Python 3.0a2. > > > [timing code, 10,000 calls] > > [ f( X ) ]: 0.0210021106034 > > [ start_new_thread( f, X ) ]: 1.15759908033 > > [ Thread( f, X ).start() ]: 1.85400099733 > > [ Thread( f, X ).start and .join() ]: 1.93716743329 > > > Are threads an OS bottleneck? > > I don't understand your threading issues, but I would not use 3.0a2 > for benchmarking anything (except benchmarking Python 3.0 itself). > AFAIK the developers are first trying to get it right and stable; > speed issues will be addressed later. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
Multi-threaded control flow is a worthwhile priority. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
