Re: 1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!
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Re: 1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!

From: Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 19:49:30 CEST

Chris Curvey wrote:

> Multi-threading may help if your python program is spending all it's
> time waiting for the network (quite possible). If you're CPU-bound and
> not waiting on network, then multi-threading probably isn't the answer.

Unless you are on a multi cpu/ multi core machine.
(but mind Python's GIL)

--Irmen
Received on Thu Sep 29 19:17:09 2005