[Python-Dev] Python Benchmarks

Andrew Dalke andrewdalke at gmail.com
Sat Jun 3 01:25:06 CEST 2006


On 6/2/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> It's interesting that even pressing a key on your keyboard
> will cause forced context switches.

When niceness was first added to multiprocessing OSes people found their
CPU intensive jobs would go faster by pressing enter a lot.

                                Andrew
                                dalke at dalkescientific.com


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