On Sep 7, 8:06 am, cnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I buy a multicore computer and I have really intensive program. How > would that be distributed across the cores?
AFAIK, a single process wouldn't be distributed automatically. > Will algorithms always have to be programmed and told specifically to > run on several cores so if not told it will only utilize one core? AFAIK, yes. See (for example) http://www.parallelpython.com/ > So is the free lunch really over There is no such thing as a free lunch. Something which has never existed can't be over. > or is this just an overhyped > phenomena? These days, every IT phenomenon is over-hyped. If you have a CPU-intensive Python program, you may want to consider: (1) checking that there are not faster/better algorithms for doing what you want in Python, either built-in or in a 3rd-party library (2) using psyco (3) checking your code for sub-optimal constructs HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
