I've been trying to make my music app use dual core,
and would very much like some more detailed information on this.
Excuse my lack of knowledge,
but how do I explicitly release the GIL ?
I haven't learned this, but have found through experimentation that I
can release a thread by using time.sleep(0) inside a thread's "run
while true" loop. This seems to create an interrupt, and give other
threads a chance to do their thing.
If this is terribly wrong (it works, but I dont' know how stable it
is), please do point me in the direction of a proper way to implement
it.
As stated in an earlier post, my threads do not work on shared data,
so I have not implemented any sort of lock or mutex.
best
Oeyvind
On 10/2/06, Fredrik Lundh <fr*****@pythonware.comwrote:
"robert" wrote:
Simple Python code obviously cannot use the dual core by Python threads.
Yet, a program drawing CPU mainly for matrix computations - preferably
with Numeric/SciPy - will this profit from a dual core when using 2 (or
more) Python threads?
as long as the binding releases the GIL, sure.
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