Roy Smith wrote: > Threads are lighter-weight. That means it's faster to start a new > thread (compared to starting a new process), and a thread consumes fewer > system resources than a process. If you have lots of short-lived tasks > to run, this can be significant. If each task will run for a long time > and do a lot of computation, the cost of startup becomes less of an > issue because it's amortized over the longer run time.
This might be true on Windows, but I think on Linux process overheads are pretty similar to threads, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807506/threads-vs-processes-in-linux Combined with the lack of a GIL-conflict, processes can be pretty efficient. Jeremy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
