[Tutor] Generate Prime Numbers

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:11:36 +0530, Mirage Web Studio writes:
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>On 2015-05-31 5:04 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> On 30/05/15 19:14, George wrote:
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>Excuse me please for replying late.
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>I got lists to use the method and it is more efficient and faster. 
>(Takes about 10 secs to process first 50 mil numbers)
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>But now another problem i seem to notice that only 1 core of my amd 
>Athlon X2 4core processor is being used.  I suppose if all the four 
>cores are simultaneously used then the programme might run even faster.  
>Is there a way.
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>Kindly guide me.
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>Thank You.
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>George

If you want, you can use the STM branch of the pypy interpreter.  This
is a Python without the global interpreter lock.  One of the tests
we did was, surprise, to calculate prime numbers.

See the blog post here:
http://morepypy.blogspot.se/2014/11/tornado-without-gil-on-pypy-stm.html

Laura