gevent vs thread

ge.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Copyright (c) 2009 Denis Bilenko. See LICENSE for details.

"""Spawn multiple workers and wait for them to complete"""

hosts = ["http://yahoo.com", "http://google.com", "http://amazon.com", "http://ibm.com", "http://apple.com"]

import gevent
from gevent import monkey

# patches stdlib (including socket and ssl modules) to cooperate with other greenlets
monkey.patch_all()

import urllib2
import time

def print_head(url):
    data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    print ('%s: %s bytes: %r' % (url, len(data), data[:50]))

start = time.time()
def main():
  jobs = [gevent.spawn(print_head, host) for host in hosts]
  gevent.joinall(jobs)

main()
print "Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)

tr.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import Queue
import threading
import urllib2
import time

hosts = ["http://yahoo.com", "http://google.com", "http://amazon.com",
"http://ibm.com", "http://apple.com"]

queue = Queue.Queue()

class ThreadUrl(threading.Thread):
  """Threaded Url Grab"""
  def __init__(self, queue):
    threading.Thread.__init__(self)
    self.queue = queue

  def run(self):
    while True:
      #grabs host from queue
      host = self.queue.get()

      data = urllib2.urlopen(host).read()
      print ('%s: %s bytes: %r' % (host, len(data), data[:50]))

      #signals to queue job is done
      self.queue.task_done()

start = time.time()
def main():
  for i in range(5):
    t = ThreadUrl(queue)
    t.setDaemon(True)
    t.start()

  for host in hosts:
    queue.put(host)

  queue.join()

main()
print "Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)