On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:33 PM, jmp <jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > On 10/27/2016 01:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Blocked threads don't consume CPU time. Why would they? >> >> ChrisA >> > > Agreed. My point being that a blocked thread achieve nothing, except > parallelism, i.e. other threads can be processed. > > To be more specific, if you compute factorial(51354) in a thread, it will > still require approx. the same amount of CPU clocks than in a main thread > (probably slightly more due to the scheduler overhead). > > jm
Of course. But the OP wants to do blocking calls, which don't cost you like that. So it's fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
