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Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput?

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> But I would concur -- probably they'll both give about the same speedup.
> I just detest the pain that multithreading can bring, and tend to avoid
> it if at all possible.

I don't have a history of major pain from threading. Is this a Python
thing, or have I just been really really fortunate (growing up on OS/2
rather than Windows has definitely been, for me, a major boon)?
Generally, I find threads to be convenient, though of course not
always useful (especially in serialized languages).

ChrisA

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Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 18:38 -0700
  Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-10-25 02:10 +0000
    Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-25 03:35 +0000
      Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-10-25 03:57 +0000
      Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 17:13 +1100
      Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-10-25 08:39 +0200
      Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 18:26 +1100
      Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-10-25 11:24 +0000
      Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 22:42 +1100
  Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-25 03:19 +0000
  Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-25 04:46 +0100
  Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-25 19:44 -0400
    Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-25 20:22 -0400
  Re: Processing large CSV files - how to maximise throughput? Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-10-26 08:53 +0000

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