Strange array.array performance

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2009-02-19 12:52, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm currently writing a Python<->  MATLAB interface with ctypes and
>>> array.array class, using which I'll need to push large amounts of data
>>> to MATLAB.
>>
>> Have you taken a look at mlabwrap?
>>
>>  http://mlabwrap.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> At the very least, you will probably want to use numpy arrays instead of
>> array.array.
>>
>>  http://numpy.scipy.org/
>
> I have, but numpy is not currently available for python 2.6, which is
> what I need for some other features, and I'm trying to keep the
> dependencies down in any case. Mlabwrap description doesn't mention if
> it is thread-safe, and that's another one of my requirements.

What do you mean by thread-safe ? Different threads calling the same
matlab engine handle ?

David