Python threading/multiprocessing issue.

Waldek M. wm at localhost.localdomain
Sat Jul 16 07:41:44 EDT 2011


Dnia Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:15:15 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber napisał(a):
> 	And (so far as I understand it) each process can claim its own CPU
> core, whereas threads share the active core.

I do not think so. AFAIK, threads may be distributed over differrent
CPUs (just like in any other programming language), only because of GIL, 
you might not notice any performance improvement with that.

Best regards,
Waldek



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