Re: [Jython-users] Jython can use SMP unlike CPython

[Andy S. <an...@ne...>]

> Two processors can certainly speed up a CPython app, but a 
> jython app can probably scale better on more than two processors 
> than CPython because the lock would eventually get in the 
> way too often.

From the behaviour I've seen, Jython will scale much much 
better on even just 2 CPU machines, specially for 
compute-intensive operations.