Dedicated CPU core for Python?

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu Apr 26 18:07:06 EDT 2007


En Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:54:38 -0300, Joshua J. Kugler  
<joshua at eeinternet.com> escribió:

> Are you talking about CPU affinity
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_affinity) or an actual CPU that  
> can directory execute Python byte code?  If the former, CPython only  
> uses one
> CPU core right now because it's threads are all internal, and do not  
> spawn system threads (IIRC).

Python threads are OS threads:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-thread.html
"[The thread module] is supported on Windows, Linux, SGI IRIX, Solaris  
2.x, as well as on systems that have a POSIX thread (a.k.a. ``pthread'')  
implementation."

-- 
Gabriel Genellina



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