Commit d6d17c58 authored by Antoine Pitrou's avatar Antoine Pitrou

No need to put this at top

parent fcf81fd0
...@@ -20,17 +20,6 @@ The :mod:`dummy_threading` module is provided for situations where ...@@ -20,17 +20,6 @@ The :mod:`dummy_threading` module is provided for situations where
methods and functions in this module in the Python 2.x series are still methods and functions in this module in the Python 2.x series are still
supported by this module. supported by this module.
.. impl-detail::
Due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, in CPython 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
resources of multi-core machines, you are advised to use
:mod:`multiprocessing` or :class:`concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor`.
However, threading is still an appropriate model if you want to run
multiple I/O-bound tasks simultaneously.
This module defines the following functions and objects: This module defines the following functions and objects:
...@@ -374,6 +363,18 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads. ...@@ -374,6 +363,18 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads.
property instead. property instead.
.. impl-detail::
Due to the :term:`Global Interpreter Lock`, in CPython 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
resources of multi-core machines, you are advised to use
:mod:`multiprocessing` or :class:`concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor`.
However, threading is still an appropriate model if you want to run
multiple I/O-bound tasks simultaneously.
.. _lock-objects: .. _lock-objects:
Lock Objects Lock Objects
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