[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody tried to run parallel python applications? > It appears that if your application is computation-bound using 'thread' > or 'threading' modules will not get you any speedup. That is because > python interpreter uses GIL(Global Interpreter Lock) for internal > bookkeeping. The later allows only one python byte-code instruction to > be executed at a time even if you have a multiprocessor computer. > To overcome this limitation, I've created ppsmp module: > http://www.parallelpython.com > It provides an easy way to run parallel python applications on smp > computers. > I would appreciate any comments/suggestions regarding it. > Thank you! >
Looks interesting, but is there any way to use this for a cluster of machines over a network (not smp)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
