Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On 14 Dec 2005 10:15:08 -0800, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>You either need to run multiple processes or run code that mostly calls >>into C libraries that release the GIL. For example, a threaded spider >>scales nicely on SMP. > > Yes. Nearly as well as a single-threaded spider ;)
I'm confused about how a single-threaded spider -- even using Twisted! -- could "scale well" on a multiprocessor machine (that's what SMP means, right?) without using multiple processes. I believe that's the scenario to which Aahz was referring. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
