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[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Michael Mossey <michaelmossey at gmail.com> (MM) wrote:

>MM> Ah yes, that explains it. Some of these long computations are done in
>MM> pure C, so I'm sure the GIL is not being released.

Is that C code under your own control? Or at least the glue from Python
to C? In that case, and if the C code is not manipulating Python objects
or something in the Python interpreter, it could be changed to release
the GIL during the computation. That's also how Numpy does it, IIRC.
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