On 28 Jul 2005 12:10:12 -0700, Sidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I was recently reading an article on threading in python and I > came across Global Interpreter Lock,now as a novince in python I was > cusrious about > > 1.Is writing a threaded code in python going to perform well than a > normal python code.If so on what basis can it performance be measured. > > 2.Is writing a threaded code in python better than a code written in > C/C++ using PTHREADS. > > If someone can comment on these questions, it would be great. >
If you want performance with an application that does a lot of concurrent activity, you might take a look at http://www.twistedmatrix.com which is an event driven framework for python. Much better performance than threads with a lot less memory and cpu usage. Although it does have a bit of a learning curve. In my own experience it would be faster then a comparable application written in C using pthreads. We have an application written in twisted that processes financial applications via bank networks, and at a steady 100tps I get about 1% cpu usage. We tested it up to around 1000tps before our database server started to get a bit overloaded. Twisted never used more than 20% of the cpu though. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
