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Mon May 17 23:31:22 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-May/100147.html

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2010 15:13:44 PDT
> Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>> So the patch to the threading code would presumably, for those OSs where
>> the capability exists, try to put all created threads in the same
>> affinity set.
> 
> This is not really a good idea. There's some code which releases the
> GIL, precisely so that you can run several threads (computations) at
> once.

Somewhat irrelevant given the rest of this thread, but you could
potentially deal with that by playing CPU affinity games in the
BEGIN/END_ALLOW_THREADS macros.

Cheers,
Nick.

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