threading and multicores, pros and cons

[Maric Michaud]

Le mercredi 14 février 2007 05:49, Paul Rubin a écrit :
> Basically Python applications are usually not too CPU-intensive; there
> are some ways you can get parallelism with reasonable extra effort;
Basically, while not CPU intensive, application server needs to get benefit of 
all resources of the hardware.
When a customer comes with his new beautiful dual-core server and get a basic 
plone install up and running, he will immediately compare it to J2EE and 
wonder why he should pay a consultant to make it work properly.
At this time, it 's not easy to explain him that python is not flawed compared 
to Java, and that he will not regret his choice in the future.
First impression may be decisive.

The historical explanation should be inefficient here, I'm afraid. What about 
the argument that said that multi threading is not so good for parallelism ? 
Is it strong enough ?

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