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| From | Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net> |
| Subject | Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script |
| Date | Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:02:42 +0200 |
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Roy Smith wrote: > Threads are lighter-weight. That means it's faster to start a new > thread (compared to starting a new process), and a thread consumes fewer > system resources than a process. If you have lots of short-lived tasks > to run, this can be significant. If each task will run for a long time > and do a lot of computation, the cost of startup becomes less of an > issue because it's amortized over the longer run time. This might be true on Windows, but I think on Linux process overheads are pretty similar to threads, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807506/threads-vs-processes-in-linux Combined with the lack of a GIL-conflict, processes can be pretty efficient. Jeremy
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Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script JL <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2013-10-03 09:01 -0700
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-03 12:41 -0400
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 02:50 +1000
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-03 14:28 -0400
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 04:36 +1000
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-03 15:53 -0400
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 08:22 +1000
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-10-03 18:40 +0000
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net> - 2013-10-04 10:02 +0200
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-04 16:38 +0000
Re: Multiple scripts versus single multi-threaded script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 02:42 +1000
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