Re: Thread performance on Python 2.6

2009-12-31 Thread Jan Kaliszewski
31-12-2009 Rodrick Brown wrote: I started dabbling with threads in python and for some odd reason the performance seems extremely poor on my 2 core system. It this a simplified version spawn 2 threads write some data to a file and time the results vs doing the same sequentially. Why is the p

Thread performance on Python 2.6

2009-12-30 Thread Rodrick Brown
I started dabbling with threads in python and for some odd reason the performance seems extremely poor on my 2 core system. It this a simplified version spawn 2 threads write some data to a file and time the results vs doing the same sequentially. Why is the performance so much slower with the thre