client-server parallellised number crunching

Wed Apr 27 10:15:05 EDT 2011

On 2011年4月27日 23:35:06 +1000, Chris Angelico
 <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun 
: <hg at schaathun.net> wrote:
: > That's correct.  And the client initiates the connection.  At the
: > moment, I use one thread per connection, and don't really want to
: > spend the time to figure out how to do it singlethreadedly.
:: Threads work quite happily in Python if they're I/O bound, which they
: will be if they're waiting for the client to do something.

Quite. I was referring to some tutorials and documentation recommending
to use non-blocking sockets and select() within a single thread. I
cannot say that I understand why, but I can imagine the benefit with
heavy traffic.
-- 
:-- Hans Georg