On 29 Gru, 15:52, mk <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > After readinghttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0371/I was under > impression that performance of multiprocessing package is similar to > that of thread / threading. However, to familiarize myself with both > packages I wrote my own test of spawning and returning 100,000 empty > threads or processes (while maintaining at most 100 processes / threads > active at any one time), respectively. > > The results I got are very different from the benchmark quoted in PEP > 371. On twin Xeon machine the threaded version executed in 5.54 secs, > while multiprocessing version took over 222 secs to complete! > > Am I doing smth wrong in code below? Or do I have to use > multiprocessing.Pool to get any decent results?
Oooh, 100000 processes! You're fortunate that your OS handled them in finite time. [quick browsing through the code] Ah, so there are 100 processes at time. 200secs still don't sound strange. JW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
