In article <h1l6m3$3f...@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Jeremy Sanders <jeremy+complangpyt...@jeremysanders.net> wrote: >Jesse Noller wrote: >> >> Sorry, you're incorrect. I/O Bound threads do in fact, take advantage >> of multiple cores. > >I don't know whether anyone else brought this up, but it looks >like Python has problems with even this form of threading > >http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf
Most of us have already seen this. It's a good point, but IME writing multi-threaded apps for multi-core machines, I think one should be careful to avoid reading too much into it. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
