On 9 Jul, 06:44, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > WRT a single machine, you should note that GPGPUs are a lot faster these > days than even multi-core CPUs. And Python has pretty good support for > GPUs, too.
With OpenCL, Python is better than C for heavy computing. The Python or C/C++ program has to supply OpenCL code (structured text) to the OpenCL driver, which does the real work on GPU or CPU. Python is much better than C or C++ at processing text. There will soon be OpenCL drivers for most processors on the market. But OpenCL drivers will not be pre-installed on Windows, as Microsoft has a competing COM-based technology (DirectX Compute, with an atrocious API and syntax). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
