Of course, with multiple threads in one process, it's important to know about the dreaded global interpreter lock (GIL) -- http://docs.python.org/api/threads.html
With one instance of the interpreter, only one Python thread will be running at a time, no matter how many CPUs you have in the system. Greg Ewing wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> - creating many sub-interpreters (Py_NewInterpreter) with a thread >> state each >> >> Or >> >> - creating one interpreter with many thread states (PyThreadState_New) > > > My understanding is that using multiple interpeters isn't > really supported properly, despite there being apparent > support in the API. So I suggest using a single interpeter > with multiple threads. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
