Cpython optimization

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:45:06 +0200, Olof Bjarnason a écrit :
> 
> So I think my first question is still interesting: What is the point of
> multiple cores, if memory is the bottleneck?

Why do you think it is, actually? Some workloads are CPU-bound, some 
others are memory- or I/O-bound.

You will find plenty of benchmarks on the Web showing that some workloads 
scale almost linearly to the number of CPU cores, while some don't.