On Feb 3, 9:02 am, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > I know there's a performance penalty for running Python on a > multicore CPU, but how bad is it? I've read the key paper > ("www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf"), of course.
It's a shame that Python 3.x is dead to you, otherwise you'd be able to enjoy the new GIL implementation in 3.2: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/NewGIL.pdf Actually, it looks like you probably still can: + patch for 2.5.4: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/109929 + patch for 2.7? http://bugs.python.org/issue7753 (Can't comment on affinity, though, sorry) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list