threads or queue for this task

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1032244699.24395.python-list at python.org>,
Bjorn Pettersen <BPettersen at NAREX.com> wrote:
>
>If you have any amount of data to process (why else would you be
>multithreading?) I've never seen producers and consumers being close
>enough in performance to not have the system end up swapping to death --
>unless, that is, if the queue is bounded. The Python Queue module
>supports most of this out-of-the-box, and adding timeouts is fairly
>trivial...

Well, one instance would be where producer and consumer are the same
threads.  For example, a web spider.  You *want* an unbounded queue in
that case to avoid deadlock.
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