On Sun, 16 May 2010 15:13:44 PDT Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > > So the patch to the threading code would presumably, for those OSs where > the capability exists, try to put all created threads in the same > affinity set.
This is not really a good idea. There's some code which releases the GIL, precisely so that you can run several threads (computations) at once. If you aren't too concerned with interactivity, you can increase sys.setcheckinterval() to alleviate the problem on 2.x. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
