Antoine Pitrou wrote: > 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.
Somewhat irrelevant given the rest of this thread, but you could potentially deal with that by playing CPU affinity games in the BEGIN/END_ALLOW_THREADS macros. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
