Thank you Xavier. Maybe this is too simplistic, but given two programs, one in Python the other in Java or C#. Would this mean that running the latter on a dual core processor would significantly increase execution speed, whereas the Python program would be running in one processor only without any speed up?
Is a Java program capable of this "out of the box" or does this require specific additional code? malv -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list