Python: performance, footprint, multi-threading, etc.

Stefan Franke spamfranke at bigfoot.de
Tue May 25 10:27:45 EDT 1999


On Tue, 25 May 1999 02:44:10 +0200, earlybird at mop.no (Alexander Staubo) wrote:

>Read up on completion ports; if you're looking for speed, there is 
>currently no better way of synchronizing threads on Win32. Completion 
>ports obviate the need for the scheduler to search for threads to wake, 
>one of the reason loads of threads can bog down a system.

Sounds interesting. Since I don't know anything about Win32 threading,
do you have any pointers that could give me an intro?

Stefan





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