On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Sibtey Mehdi <sibt...@infotechsw.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I use multiprocessing to compare more then one set of files. > > For comparison each set of files (i.e. Old file1 Vs New file1) I create a > process, > > Process(target=compare, args=(oldFile, newFile)).start() > > It takes 61 seconds execution time. > > > > When I do the same comparison without implementing multiprocessing, it takes > 52 seconds execution time. > > > > The parallel processing time should be lesser. > > > > I am not able to get advantage of multiprocessing here.
Depends on the overheads of spawning multiple threads/processes v$ your actual processing. The same way, things are compared in old school when they used to compare macros v$ functions in C/C++. -Amit > > > > Any suggestions can be very helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > Gopal > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- Amit Kumar Saha http://amitksaha.blogspot.com http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ Skype: amitkumarsaha _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
