Is Stackless and uthread.py SMP friendly?

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Tue Dec 19 11:55:54 EST 2000


In article <m38zpcwno8.fsf at chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr>,
Konrad Hinsen  <hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote:
>jbalding at hotmail.com writes:
>>
>> Okay. My next question: Is there a simple way of taking advantage of
>> multiple processors using Python, or is this something that is going to
>
>Unless your code spends most of its time in purpose-written C code,
>threads are not the way to go, so you need multiple independent Python
>processes. 

That's not quite true.  Most of the I/O calls in Python release the
global interpreter lock, so I/O heavy code tends to take advantage of
SMP quite well.
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