Alan Gauld, 09.10.2010 19:50:
Now, the bad news is that so far as I know the python interpreter does not expose its threading model to the OS to even if you use threads the interpreter itself will still be running on a single CPU core. :-(
Python's threads are native system threads. They can run fully concurrent on a multiprocessor system with the only exception that only one thread can use the interpreter at a time. However, everything that runs in C code can run in parallel and I/O will usually also work in parallel (which is the main use case of threads anyway).
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