From: Ezio Melotti Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:55:46 +0000 (+0200) Subject: #16978: rephrase sentence and fix typo. Initial patch by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe. X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~164^2~70 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e0f462cb2f98982013b9336d9315ec80f42cbdd;p=python #16978: rephrase sentence and fix typo. Initial patch by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst index 44e4d6dd05..dee765aa40 100644 --- a/Doc/library/threading.rst +++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ The :mod:`dummy_threading` module is provided for situations where .. impl-detail:: - Due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, in CPython only one thread + In CPython, due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, only one thread can execute Python code at once (even though certain performance-oriented libraries might overcome this limitation). - If you want your application to make better of use of the computational + If you want your application to make better use of the computational resources of multi-core machines, you are advised to use :mod:`multiprocessing`. However, threading is still an appropriate model if you want to run multiple I/O-bound tasks simultaneously.