[Python-Dev] Re: marking shared-ness

[Christian Tismer]

Greg,

Greg Stein wrote:
<snip/
> Presuming you can keep your lock contention low, then your overall
> performances *goes up* once you have a multiprocessor machine. Sure, each
> processor runs Python (say) 10% slower, but you have *two* of them going.
> That is 180% compared to a central-lock Python on an MP machine.

Why didn't I think of this.
MP is a very very good point.
Makes now all much sense to me.

sorry for being dumb - happy easter - chris

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