[Numpy-discussion] Fast threading solution thoughts
Dag Sverre Seljebotn
dagss at student.matnat.uio.no
Thu Feb 12 08:43:12 EST 2009
Sturla Molden wrote:
> On 2/12/2009 1:50 PM, Francesc Alted wrote:
>
>
>> Hey! That's very nice to know. We already have OpenMP support in
>> Cython for free (or apparently it seems so :-)
>>
>
> Not we don't, as variable names are different in C and Cython. But
> adding support for OpenMP would not bloat the Cython language.
>
What I meant was "bloat the Cython compiler", i.e. Cython has to know
about OpenMP and there must be OpenMP-specific code in the compiler. The
grammar etc. wouldn't change.
But I think I'll be able to lobby it in, given a good spec and some time
to implement it (about a day of work, so I think this is likely to
happen within a year).
As Cython must understand what is going on anyway, having things like
"with cython.openmp.parallell" is actually a lot easier to implement in
Cython than using comments/pragmas, and looks nicer too IMO. (It means
that only code generation and not the parser must be modified.)
Dag Sverre
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