If you are CPU-bound, extra threads won't help in Python due to the GIL (it 
limits an entire Python process to one core, even with multiple threads). 

Robert
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Subject: [pygame] Re: Python optimization help
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On 1/19/2012 5:33 PM, Silver wrote:
> On 1/19/2012 5:32 PM, Silver wrote:
>> I'm trying to speed up this program as much as possible. Anyone able to
>> help?
>>
>>
> Waugh. Old version...

Oddly enough, lowering the amount of extra workers in the pool results
in a higher speed?

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