Can python threads take advantage of use dual core ?

[Alex Martelli]

Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05pAM at web.de> wrote:
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> Which virtually all computation-intensive extensions do. Also, note the

gmpy doesn't (release the GIL), even though it IS computationally
intensive -- I tried, but it slows things down horribly even on an Intel
Core Duo.  I suspect that may partly be due to the locking strategy of
the underlying GMP 4.2 library (which I haven't analyzed in depth).  In
practice, when I want to exploit both cores to the hilt with gmpy-based
computations, I run multiple processes.


Alex