robert wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>> "robert" wrote:
>>>>> Simple Python code obviously cannot use the dual core by Python threads.
>>> Yet, a program drawing CPU mainly for matrix computations - preferably
>>> with Numeric/SciPy - will this profit from a dual core when using 2 (or
>>> more) Python threads?
>>>> as long as the binding releases the GIL, sure.
>> Thus - does Numeric/SciPy release it?
Depends. Some of the linear algebra functions in scipy do. Most operations do
not. People are looking at adding more.
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Robert Kern
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that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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