I would go with multiprocessing rather than multithreading--processes are "weightier" but there are no side effects....
William On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:52 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:26 PM, william ratcliff > > <william.ratcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone had any thoughts or seen what other CAS do to take advantage > of > >> multiple cores? For example, if one is collecting terms, one could > imagine > >> farming out subexpressions to search to each core. > > > > Very good idea! > > > > Or when one is expanding things like (x+1)**10 * (y+3)**20, or series > > expansion of things like 1/(sin(x)*cos(x)), those could be easily (?) > > done in parallel. Once we are done with refactoring assumptions + > > cache, we'll try to put in our cython core and that will allow us to > > experiment with things like these. > > > > Ondrej > > Does cython make it easy to do threading? The polys core already has some > cython support, though I have never gotten around to figuring out how to use > it. > > Right now, I am think of how I could make the integration algorithms I am > currently implementing multi-core enabled. I think it would require very > meticulously going through the code and marking sequential expensive > function calls that do not depend on each other. It would not be trivial, > but doable, if there were an easy interface for it. Now whether that > interface exists in Python is another question. > > Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <sympy%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
