[Python-Dev] Fixing the GIL (with a BFS scheduler) (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sun May 16 23:27:09 CEST 2010


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Bill Janssen wrote: > As far as I'm concerned, just tying all of > the program's threads to a single core would be fine, though I imagine > others would differ.

Which can be done through the OS tools for setting an application's CPU affinity.

Yes, as I say, if the initialization of the threading module called those tools appropriately and automatically, I'd be happy. Well, less unhappy :-).

I have to admit, I don't know how to do this on OS X. What's the tool and the process, if we're not getting too far afield?

Bill



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