Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b

Date	2011-04-16 16:10 -0600
From	Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b
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On 04/16/2011 02:53 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Apr 16, 10:44 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>> In article <e6008cc8-50f0-4d78-be78-ec6e73b97...@22g2000prx.googlegroups.com>,
>> Raymond Hettinger  <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Threading is really only an answer if you need to share data between
>>> threads, if you only have limited scaling needs, and are I/O bound
>>> rather than CPU bound
>>
>> Threads are also useful for user interaction (i.e. GUI apps).  
>>
> 
> I suppose that's why most GUI toolkits use a multithreaded model.

Many GUI toolkits are single-threaded.  And in fact with GTK and MFC you
can't (or shouldn't) call GUI calls from a thread other than the main
GUI thread.  That's not to say GUI programs don't use threads and put
the GUI it its own thread.  But GUI toolkits are often *not*
multithreaded.  They are, however, often asynchronous, which is often
more cost-effective than multi-threaded.

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Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b Chris H <chris.humphres@windsorcircle.com> - 2011-04-15 13:09 -0400
  Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-04-15 18:05 -0700
    Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 11:59 +0900
      Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-04-17 07:48 -0700
    Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) - 2011-04-16 07:44 -0700
      Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 02:04 +1000
      Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b Jean-Paul Calderone <calderone.jeanpaul@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 13:53 -0700
        Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 16:10 -0600
          Re: Questions about GIL and web services from a n00b sturlamolden <sturlamolden@yahoo.no> - 2011-04-17 07:50 -0700

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