4 Mar
2011
4 Mar
'11
3:06 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM, keenerd <keenerd@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/3/11, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
Should I ask him to explain how the python GIL works?
In one word: poorly. Not that I care, my laptop is single core and in-order to boot. If I had one of those pretty six core Phenoms I'd be switching my code over to Stackless faster than you can say lock contention.
-Kyle http://kmkeen.com
check import multiprocessing It's uses processes instead of threads, but it's probably a really good way of utilizing all your cores :)