From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2009-08-23T13:20:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Process or Thread?


On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Pito Salas wrote:
>
> A note: he files being processed are quite large and numerous. So
> there's also plenty of file IO that has to happen. In the vanilla  
> 'green
> thread' case, would you expect performance improvements, because while
> one thread was blocked for IO the other one could run?

Whether you use threads or processes your CPU-bound tasks will run while
your IO-bound tasks are waiting for the disk.

Gary Wright