Re: Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

From: Aahz (aahz_at_pythoncraft.com)
Date: 10/06/04

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    In article <ck0emf$1ar$1@s5.feed.news.oleane.net>,
    Sam G. <nospam:samuelgay@yahoo.fr> wrote:
    >
    >But if only one thread per interpreter could run at a time, in multicore
    >two (or more) thread can't run at the same time. In performance the
    >result is almost the same : if the server has nothing else than running
    >python (not real i know, just to be simple), only one core work...
    >
    >Not very good for Zope, as multicore are for the near future...

    Depends where it bogs down. If it's CPU, it may be an issue. If it's
    I/O, CPython already releases the GIL and Zope benefits. 

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