On 2009-09-29 17:05 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Sturla Molden skrev:
>> SciPy more or less never releases the GIL from C or Fortran.
>>
>
> Which is also both from necissity and not bothering. Necissity e.g.
> because SciPy's FFTPACK called in a way that prevents it from being
> re-entrant.
>
> It is a sad the GIL is not released pervasively in NumPy and SciPy, as a
> Python app will often freeze during a lengthy computation.

We eagerly await your patches.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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