text_combined: nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom facundo batista wrote 2008320 andrew mcnabb since officially encourage people spawn processes instead threads think would great idea processing module similar api threading easy use works well importantly gives us place point people complain gil im 1 include processing module stdlib avoid confussions libraries alike names im meaning 1 module one emulates semantics threading module anybody strong reasons module get included prerelease version number fact thing would require r oudkerk actually make offer rather anyone else would also need usual thing least couple people stepping willing maintain also wouldnt mind seeing performance figures application limited making good use one cpu run threading module able exploit multiple processors obtain speed improvements run processing module said im actually 1 general idea since always write threaded python code using worker threads communicate via queue objects pyprocessing would great way scale multiple processors running cpu intensive tasks rather potentially longrunning hardware io operations ive meaning check long time never actually needed either work home projects cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 030527 1000 pythondev improved thread switching