can multi-core improve single funciton?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:43:20 +0000, Lie Ryan wrote:

> Of course multi-core processor can improve single function using
> multiprocessing, as long as the function is parallelizable. The
> Fibonacci function is not a parallelizable function though.

As I understand it, there's very little benefit to multi-cores in Python 
due to the GIL. 


-- 
Steven.