Parallelization on muli-CPU hardware?

[Aahz]

BTW, Nicolas, it'd be nice if you did not post quoted-printable.  I'm
leaving the crud in so you can see it.

In article <416bd75f$0$10909$afc38c87 at news.easynet.fr>,
Nicolas Lehuen <nicolas.lehuen at thecrmcompany.com> wrote:
>
>Yeah I know this. My point was that when benchmarking single-threaded =
>programs vs multithreaded ones, you have to choose the kind of program =
>you use : CPU-intensive vs IO-intensive. On a single CPU machine, =
>CPU-intensive program will always run better in a single-threaded model. =
>But of course, if you have 2 procs and a nice threading model, you can =
>even do 2 CPU-intensive tasks simultaneously, which Python cannot do if =
>I've understood everything so far.

Python itself cannot, but there's nothing preventing anyone from writing
numeric extensions that release the GIL.
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