tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2797923531103204252.post-40724546566918995232007-10-22T16:26:00.000+02:002007-10-22T21:42:07.872+02:002007-10-22T21:42:07.872+02:00GNU pth instead of pthread: hardcore python tuningProblem I've been working on speed of an application written in python. While doing strace I found out that the most of syscalls were futex(). This futexes came from python's internal synchronization code. But the application never used any kind of threading! Most of the users never actually realize that python is doing synchronization between threads even when threads aren't used. It's not so majeknoreply@blogger.com5