[Tutor] simple threads program

[calvin]

Thomas CLive Richards wrote:

>>I would like to download and save a bunch of pages, and since the 
>>download is most of the time, it seems like a good candidate for
>>speedup using threads.
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>I'm not going to comment on the code (because i can't), but your example
>seems a little wierd...
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>surely if the downloading take up most of the time, this would mean that
>you're on a fairly slow connection? perhaps dialup? If so, how would
>having multiple threads speed it up? OK, so there would be a slight
>speed increase, but you can't download 3 times as much by having 3
>separate downloads; they'll just be coming down at 1/3 the speed....
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No. I mean that downloading takes most of the time, because the cpu work 
is very little. I have broadband, and I rarely use close to my download 
capacity for any 1 single download, so downloading simultaneously is 
indeed faster than downloading sequentially.

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>When i used threads, i just followed the documentation in the threading
>module, and it worked just fine ;)
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thanks, that's helpful ;-)

-calvin