Re: [Pytables-users] Expr performance with Tables on multicore machines

2012-05-14 Thread Francesc Alted
On 5/14/12 2:51 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: Hi Johann, Thanks for bring this up. I believe that I have determined that this is not a PyTables / pthreads issue. Doing some profiling npoints=100, I found that most of the time (97%) was being spent in the sum() call (see below). This

Re: [Pytables-users] Expr performance with Tables on multicore machines

2012-05-14 Thread Anthony Scopatz
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org wrote: [snip] However, do not expect to use all your cores at full speed in this cases, as the reductions in numexpr can only make use of one thread (this is because this has not been implemented yet, not due to a intrinsic

Re: [Pytables-users] Expr performance with Tables on multicore machines

2012-05-14 Thread Francesc Alted
On 5/14/12 3:12 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Francesc Alted fal...@pytables.org mailto:fal...@pytables.org wrote: [snip] However, do not expect to use all your cores at full speed in this cases, as the reductions in numexpr can only make use of one