John Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, all. I have a program I'm trying to speed up by putting it
> on a new machine. The new machine is a Compaq W6000 2.0 GHz
> workstation with dual XEON processors. I've gained about 7x speed
> over my old machine, which was a 300 MHz AMD K6II, but I think there
> ought to be an even greater speed gain due to the two XEONs. However,
> the thought occurs that Python (2.4.1) may not have the ability to
> take advantage of the dual processors, so my question: Does it? If
> not, who knows where there might be info from people trying to make
> Python run 64-bit, on multiple processors? Thanks!
Break up your problem into 2 independent parts, and run 2 Python
processes. Your kernel should be SMP kernel, though.
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