Python threading?

[Christian Tismer]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:
> 
>>A "one thread per connection" model is doomed from the start -
>>therefore, in most applications, I would consider 5 threads a large
>>number - particularly when all are actively doing something.  OTOH, if
>>you are willing to accept that your first version will accept a max of
>>~20 connections, the brain-power saved by using threads beats the
>>additional OS overhead by a mile ;)
> 
> 
> The new Linux native thread implementation was recently benchmarked
> running 100,000 simultaneous threads on a 1 GB machine.  Starting all
> the threads and closing them took around 2 seconds.  

Not too bad.
How about 1,000,000 in 100 MB?
Started and shut down in 15 seconds, from Python?

This was just a rough test of new features, will
give exact timings when I write the article...

ciao - chris
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