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. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
