[Pythonmac-SIG] re: 1.6a1 + threading vs. 1.5.42 (stackless)+ uthread vs. no threading at all

[Jack Jansen]

What strikes me is that the 10-threads time appears to be almost exactly 10 
times the single-thread case.

If someone has the time to look at this, i.e. see whether the same holds for a 
20-thread multithreaded version, I'd appreciate that.

If this is the case there's a few more things I'd like tried (i.e. please 
please take some work off my hands:-): the first one is checking whether the 
threads run synchronous by any chance, something like
starttimes = [0]*nthreads
stoptimes = [0]*nthreads
for i in range(nthreads):
	starttimes[i] = time.time()
	pystone.main()
	stoptimes[i] = time.time()
print starttimes, stoptimes
or so would be interesting.

The next thing I'd be interested in is whether event-things (frantically 
moving the mouse, thumping on the keyboard) make any difference to the timing.

So, if someone is willing to try this and report back: please....
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