On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > The disadvantage of threads in Python (CPython, actually) is that > there's the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock), so you won't get any speed > advantage if the threads are mostly processor-bound.
The OP didn't really say what this function does :) *sigh* @OP: You have (at least in 2.6+) threading and multiprocessing modules at your disposal. --JamesMills -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list