[Numpy-discussion] Fast threading solution thoughts

[Sturla Molden]

On 2/12/2009 11:30 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> It would be interesting to see how a spec would look for integrating 
> OpenMP natively into Cython for these kinds of purposes. Cython is still 
> flexible as a language after all. Avoiding language bloat is also 
> important, but it is difficult to know what kind of balance can be 
> struck before some kind of spec is worked out. Has anyone managed to use 
> OpenMP with Cython code in a nice way already?

Here is an example of SciPy's ckdtree.pyx modified to use OpenMP. It is 
basically twice as fast on my dual-core laptop. But as Cython mangles 
the names in the C code, I had to put the OpenMP part in a separate C file.

OpenMP does not need to be a aprt of the Cython language. It can be 
special comments in the code as in Fortran. After all, "#pragma omp 
parallel" is a comment in Cython.


Sturla Molden

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