Exploiting Dual Core's with Py_NewInterpreter's separated GIL ?

Sandra-24 sandravandale at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 7 19:59:29 EST 2006


On Nov 2, 1:32 pm, robert <no-s... at no-spam-no-spam.com> wrote:
> I'd like to use multiple CPU cores for selected time consuming Python computations (incl. numpy/scipy) in a frictionless manner.
>
> Interprocess communication is tedious and out of question, so I thought about simply using a more Python interpreter instances (Py_NewInterpreter) with extra GIL in the same process.

Why not use IronPython? It's up to date (unlike Jython), has no GIL,
and is cross-platform wherever you can get .NET or Mono (UNIX, macs,
windows) and you can use most any scientific libraries written for the
.NET/Mono platform (there's a lot) Take a look anyway.

-Sandra




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