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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:13:37 +1100
Subject: 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