On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Minesh Patel <min...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Minesh Patel <min...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is there a way for multiple tasklets to run in parallel? >> >> Seems doubtful (though I'm not an expert). >> >> From the Wikipedia article: "Stackless microthreads are managed by the >> language interpreter itself, not the operating system kernel—context >> switching and task scheduling is done purely in the interpreter. " >> >> This suggests that only one microthread is ever really being run at >> any given time. I would venture a guess that the lack of "true" >> parallel-ness is probably a design decision deeply ingrained into >> Stackless and is not changeable. You'd probably have to change to >> multiprocessing or threads. >> > > Thanks Chris, > Can you suggest any Python libraries for true parallelism or should I > just stick with Python Threads or asyncore
My knowledge of parallelism is rather limited; I'm not qualified to make such a recommendation. I'm sure someone else on the mailinglist will be able to answer though. Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
