[Python-ideas] Python threads are perfectly fine

[Antoine Pitrou]

Sturla Molden <sturla at ...> writes:
> 
> P.S. Yes I know about the GIL. It can be released by C extensions (incl. 
> Cython/Pyrex, f2py, ctypes). Python threads are perfectly fine for 
> course-grained parallelism in numerical code, with scalability and 
> performance close to GCC's OpenMP (I have tried).

That's a very refreshing thing to hear, thanks :-)