[Stackless] stackless and multi-core

Justin Tulloss jmtulloss at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 00:49:35 CEST 2008


Python doesn't do well with multiple cores due to a global lock on
interpreter. You won't see much of a benefit distributing tasklets to
multiple real threads because of this. There's a thread from last
month that discusses doing this with multiple processes instead.

http://www.stackless.com/pipermail/stackless/2008-March/003395.html

Justin

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, i have a question about stackless - does it automatically delegate
> microthreads to multiple cores / cpus, or do you have to use microthreads in
> combination with a thread pool to do that (and if you do, how is that done?)
>  thx
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