On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:33 AM, David Ripton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 11:19 AM, Sasikanth Eda wrote: > > I have tried to perform a CPU intensive operation ( which typically >> involved calculation of prime numbers from 1-100000 ) using >> Multi-process and Multi-Thread models provided by >> C, Python-2.6, PyPy-1.9. >> > > For now, you will not be happy with multiple CPU-bound threads in CPython > or PyPy, because of the GIL. Jython is free-threaded but is slow in other > ways. If you insist on using threads for CPU-bound work, you will probably > be happier with another language. > I've actually found Jython rather slow to start up, but decent once it's loaded.
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