executing multiple functions in background simultaneously

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Tue Jan 13 20:40:24 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, MRAB <google at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> The disadvantage of threads in Python (CPython, actually) is that
> there's the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock), so you won't get any speed
> advantage if the threads are mostly processor-bound.

The OP didn't really say what this function
does :) *sigh*

@OP: You have (at least in 2.6+) threading and multiprocessing modules
at your disposal.

--JamesMills



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