On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 21:02 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > The module was renamed to _thread to stop people from using it directly. > The extension module is the interface to some low level types and > functions. Especially the usage of thread.start_new_thread is > problematic, since it bypasses Python's high level threading API.
Ok, I'll take that in - I'll have a look around the threading module to see what it is that it bypasses so I can persuade myself that _thread is bad ... > For the rest I have to agree with Jean-Paul. If you need performance > don't use threads! Threads and performance are orthogonal -- sometimes > they are even contradictorily. I've taken that in too - "performance" here is over a non-uniform workload (essentially a web server), but I'm probably best offloading just about all the work to a secondary process (already passed most of it) and dealing with requests in a completely synchronous process. Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
