Thank you for that clarification. On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 19:54 -0600, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Darren Govoni <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote: > > What you refer to is different than what I need. The real 'Process' > > implementation is new to Python 2.6 > > http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html > > and is not supported in Twisted at the moment. The Process or threads in > > Twisted now, use Python threading/process constructs outside of the new > > multiprocessing module, will suffer from the Python GIL limitations - which > > hinders higher performance computing. > > It works, sure. But its not what I'm asking about. > > > I think you're a bit confused. You said "use Python threading/process > constructs outside of the new multiprocessing module, will suffer from > the Python GIL limitations". > > The "GIL limitations" *only* apply to threads, not processes. You can > take advantage of multiple CPUs in Python by running multiple > processes, no matter what technology you use to start those processes. >
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