On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:19:56 -0700 (PDT), sturlamolden
wrote:
: To optimise computational code, notice that Python itself
: gives you a 200x performance penalty. That is much more
: important than not using all 4 cores on a quadcore processor.
: In this case, start by identifying bottlenecks
On Apr 21, 3:19 pm, dutche wrote:
> My question is about the efficiency of threads in python, does anybody
> has something to share?
Never mind all the FUD about the GIL. Most of it is ill-informed
and plain wrong.
The GIL prevents you from doing one thing, which is parallel
compute-bound code
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:19 AM, dutche wrote:
> Hi folks, how are ya?
>
> Here's the thing...I had to make a program with threads and after
> finished, I found some posts and articles in Google about Python and
> threads, raising the question about if it really implements thread
> programming or
dutche, 21.04.2011 15:19:
Here's the thing...I had to make a program with threads and after
finished, I found some posts and articles in Google about Python and
threads, raising the question about if it really implements thread
programming or not, because of GIL and the way Python needs to lock
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