future multi-threading for-loops

[Gabriel Genellina]

On 5 feb, 03:46, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:

> Some timing stats: On Windows XP, Python 3.0a2.
>
> [timing code, 10,000 calls]
> [ f( X ) ]: 0.0210021106034
> [ start_new_thread( f, X ) ]: 1.15759908033
> [ Thread( f, X ).start() ]: 1.85400099733
> [ Thread( f, X ).start and .join() ]: 1.93716743329
>
> Are threads an OS bottleneck?

I don't understand your threading issues, but I would not use 3.0a2
for benchmarking anything (except benchmarking Python 3.0 itself).
AFAIK the developers are first trying to get it right and stable;
speed issues will be addressed later.

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Gabriel Genellina