Proof is in the pudding. If you can cook up a load test, under what
conditions can you soak up all of your CPU's cycles?
On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Jeremy> I'm not sure I understand how to distinguish between I/
O bound
Jeremy> threads and CPU bound threads.
I don't know that we can (people writing bits of Python which
operate on
threads). I suspect a useful distinction though is that an I/O
bound thread
mostly gives up the CPU to wait on an I/O device, while a CPU bound
thread
is mostly "evicted" from the CPU by the OS scheduler. (Though I
sort of
suspect you already understand this textbook definition.) Is that
what
you're referring to by "not sure I understand"?
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