06:49:13 Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote:
Tim Arnold wrote:
(1) what's wrong with having each chapter in a separate thread? Too much going on for a single processor?
Many more threads than cores and you spend a lot of your CPU switching tasks.
In fact, python threads work relatively the best with a powerful single core; with more cores it becomes being suprisingly inefficient. The culprit is Pythn GIL and the way it [mis]cooperates with OS scheduling. See: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf Yo *j -- Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <z...@chopin.edu.pl> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
