unexpected performance from threads and network client benchmarking

[Aahz]

In article <pan.2004.04.12.23.24.25.608986 at project2501.cor>,
Project2501  <project2501 at project2501.cor> wrote:
>
>the wisdom says that you will not see any performance increase from the
>use of threads on the client side trying to it a server (high request rate).
>
>this is explained in terms of the GIL..

Huh?  Where did you see this "wisdom"?  This is precisely one of the
prime use cases for threading.  See
http://pythoncraft.com/OSCON2001/index.html
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