17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
9:13 a.m.
Well, I'm a huge Python fan myself, but multiprocessing is not really a solution as much as it is a workaround. Python as a language has no problem with multithreading and multicore support and has all primitives to do conventional shared-state parallelism. However, the most popular /implementation/ of Python sacrifies this for performance, it has nothing to do with the language itself.
Actually, no. Neither Python nor Ruby can utilize more than a single processor using threads. The only way to use more than one processor is with processes. -- Bruce Eckel