SMP with Python - trying to unlock 2th CPU

[Kevin Jacobs]

Johannes Nix <Johannes.Nix at mail.uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
> I am using Python on a dual processor workstation for digital audio
> processing. My programm is now processing about 1/4 real time, and I
> want to speed it up by using both processors.

If you are processing the data-stream in pure-Python, then I suggest moving
as many operations to Numeric Python or C-extensions as possible.  If you
can do 1/4 real-time now, then it won't take much to be able to do 2x-10x
realtime with judicious and fairly simple optimizations.  Further, once the
majority of work is off-loaded from the interpreter (i.e. less "pure
Python"), the global lock becomes irrelevant, since its typically released
before calling extension code.

-Kevin

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