On 4/15/11 1:03 PM, Tim Wintle wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:33 -0400, Chris H wrote:
1. Are you sure you want to use python because threading is not good
due to the Global Lock (GIL)? Is this really an issue for
multi-threaded web services as seems to be indicated by the articles
from a Google search? If not, how do you avoid this issue in a
multi-threaded process to take advantage of all the CPU cores
available?
Is the limiting factor CPU?
If it isn't (i.e. you're blocking on IO to/from a web service) then the
GIL won't get in your way.
If it is, then run as many parallel *processes* as you have cores/CPUs
(assuming you're designing an application that can have multiple
instances running in parallel so that you can run over multiple servers
anyway).
Tim Wintle
Great question. At this point, there isn't a limiting factor, but yes
the concern is around CPU in the future with lots of threads handling
many simultaneous transactions.
Chris
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