Abhishek Pratap <abhishek....@gmail.com> wrote: > >My application is not I/O bound as far as I can understand it. Each >line is read and then processed independently of each other. May be >this might sound I/O intensive as #N files will be read but I think if >I have 10 processes running under a parent then it might not be a >bottle neck.
Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise. If you are only doing a little bit of processing on each line, then you almost certainly WILL be I/O bound. You will spend most of your time waiting for the disk to deliver more data. In that case, multithreading is not a win. The threads will all compete with each other for the disk. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
