[Cython] OpenMP support

[Stefan Behnel]

mark florisson, 08.03.2011 17:10:
> But how useful is it to parallelize CPU-bound code while holding GIL?
> Or do you mean to run the CPU-intensive section in a 'with nogil'
> block and when you need to do locking, or when you need to deal with
> Python objects you reaqcuire the GIL?

You don't need the GIL in order to use Python's C-level locking mechanism. 
You won't have access to Event, RLock, etc., though, as they are Python API 
classes.

Stefan