Thread load

import threading
import sys
import time
import random


results = []
locker = threading.Lock()

class ThreadedCount(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, n):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.n = n

    def run(self):
        count = 0
        total = 0
        while count < 40000000 / self.n:
            rnd = random.random()
            total += rnd
            count += 1

        locker.acquire()
        results.append({'count': count, 'total': total})
        locker.release()
        return

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        exit("Usage: {} POOL_SIZE")
    size = int(sys.argv[1])
    start = time.time()
    threads = [ ThreadedCount(n=size) for i in range(size) ]
    [ t.start() for t in threads ]
    [ t.join() for t in threads ]
    print("Results: {}".format(results))
    totals = map(lambda r: r['total'], results)
    print("Total: {}".format(sum(totals)))
    end = time.time()
    print(end - start)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

$ time python thread_load.py 1
Results: [{'count': 40000000, 'total': 19996878.531261113}]
Total: 19996878.531261113
6.478948354721069

real	0m6.539s
user	0m6.491s
sys	0m0.012s

$ time python thread_load.py 4
Results: [{'count': 10000000, 'total': 5000680.7382364655}, {'count': 10000000, 'total': 5000496.15077697}, {'count': 10000000, 'total': 5000225.747780174}, {'count': 10000000, 'total': 4999503.803068357}]
Total: 20000906.43986197
6.180345296859741

real	0m6.241s
user	0m6.283s
sys	0m0.029s