On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Konrad Hinsen < googlegro...@khinsen.fastmail.net> wrote:
> --On 29 avril 2013 09:09:27 -0400 Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> > wrote: > > On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg wrote: >> >> You could always give >> https://github.com/halgari/**clojure-py<https://github.com/halgari/clojure-py>a >> spin, >>> might not be so easy to get everything working though. :) >>> >> >> It might be worth it, if we could still write in Clojure and get good >> multicore utilization and good performance overall for our application. >> >> Is there evidence that code written/run this way will perform >> particularly well? >> > > No. The Python VM has a global interpreter lock that prevents parallel > execution of Python bytecode. If you want to parallel processing in Python > (more precisely, the CPython implementation), you must either port > CPU-intensive stuff to C or Cython, or run multiple communicating CPython > instances. > > Konrad. clojure-py code should run on pypy, which is much more promising; http://pypy.org/ The support for http://www.stackless.com/ is especially interesting. Jonathan -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
