client-server parallellised number crunching

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 16:35:57 EDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But question: Why are you doing major number crunching in Python? On
>> your quad-core machine, recode in C and see if you can do the whole
>> job without bothering the unreliable boxen at all.
>
> Hmm, or try Cython or PyPy.  ^_^

Sure, or that. I automatically think in terms of coding in C++ for
performance, but that's because I'm fluent in it. If you're not, then
yep, PyPy or Cython will do better.

Chris Angelico



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