[Stackless] multi-core processing?
Jeff Senn
senn at maya.com
Sun Jun 15 22:33:11 CEST 2008
On Jun 15, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Simon Pickles wrote:
> Hi NRB,
>
> Neutral Robot Boy wrote:
>> alright, so i'm still in 'beginner' mode with stackless here. i did
>> a bit of reading which suggested that stackless should be able to
>> distribute processing across multiple cores without trouble, and i
>> decided to write a really simple script and look at how much of a
>> load it puts on my cpu.
> The stackless scheduler which you activate by calling
> stackless.run() only runs in one thread. Each tasklet is added to
> that scheduler and called in turn. No other core will be used.
I suppose one should point out that this is not merely a limitation of
Stackless.
e.g. running schedulers in more than one thread won't even help.
Python itself, even using multiple native threads, can only make use
of one core
at a time due to the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock). If you are
interested
in the whys-and-wherefores, a search through the archives of this list
(and/or Google) will provide a bunch of discussions.
-Jas
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