casevh <cas...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm pleased to annouce that a new version of GMPY is available. > GMPY is a wrapper for the MPIR or GMP multiple-precision > arithmetic library. GMPY 1.11rc1 is available for download from: [snip] > Future plans > > On releasing the GIL: I have compared releasing the GIL versus the > multiprocessing module and the multiprocessing module offers better > and more predictable performance for embarrassingly parallel tasks > than releasing the GIL. If there are requests, I can add a compile- > time option to enable threading support but it is unlikely to > become the default.
You could have variant types of mpz etc which do release the GIL so you could mix and match accordingly. > On mutable integers: The performance advantages of mutable integers > appears to be 20% to 30% for some operations. I plan to add a new > mutable integer type in the next release of GMPY. If you want to > experiment with mutable integers now, GMPY can be compiled with > mutable version of the standard 'mpz' type. Please see the file > "mutable_mpz.txt" for more information. Mutable integers - whatever will they think of next ;-) Thanks for maintaining gmpy - it is an excellent bit of software! -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
