[SciPy-user] conforming to Python GIL...

Travis E. Oliphant oliphant at enthought.com
Fri Apr 4 13:09:03 EDT 2008


>   
> What do you mean? Currently only lapack wrappers in scipy use threadsafe
> and there has been no attempts to use it elsewhere in scipy, awaik.
> I don't understand whether you consider it as a bad or good thing.
>   
Really, the lapack wrappers have threadsafe?  I'll have to check again.  
Yesterday, when I looked at the f2py-generated code for gesv I did not 
see any evidence of releasing of the GIL.

I suspect that the GIL should be released for most of the lapack code as 
well.   Is there much overhead that way?

-Travis O.





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