On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, OdarR<olivier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 juin, 16:16, Martin von Loewis <martin.vonloe...@hpi.uni-: >> If you know that your (C) code is thread safe on its own, you can >> release the GIL around long-running algorithms, thus using as many >> CPUs as you have available, in a single process. > > what do you mean ? > > Cpython can't benefit from multi-core without multiple processes. > > Olivier
Sorry, you're incorrect. I/O Bound threads do in fact, take advantage of multiple cores. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list