On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:50:51 -0700, Ryan Rosario <uclamath...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a parser that needs to process 7 million files. After running for 2 days, it had only processed 1.5 million. I want this script to parse several files at once by using multiple threads: one for each file currently being analyzed.
Threads don't magically make a program faster. In Python in particular, threads won't do much, if anything, to speed up a CPU bound task. Assuming you have more than one CPU, Python still limits you to one thread executing Python bytecode at a time. You could try running multiple processes instead, if there really is more hardware that's sitting idle with your single threaded version. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
