Francesc Alted (2010-05-20 20:28:47 +0200) wrote: > [...] > I'm happy to announce the first candidate release for PyTables 2.2 series. > Among the most exciting improvements of this release is the support of > threads > in several parts of PyTables, namely Blosc and, optionally, Numexpr (which is > out of the main distribution now and becomes a requisite). > > In particular, I'm quite happy of how performs the recent multi-threaded > implementation that undergone Blosc in 0.9. It uses a pool of threads > technique in order to reduce thread management to a bare minimum. When all > the tests would be finished, I expect to release Blosc 1.0 very soon now > (hopefully before PyTables 2.2 final). > [...]
I've run the heavy test suite from repository version r4463 on an Intel Core 2 Duo running Debian unstable and all tests pass. Here is the sys-info:: PyTables version: 2.2rc2.dev HDF5 version: 1.8.4 NumPy version: 1.4.0 Numexpr version: 1.3.1 (not using Intel's VML/MKL) Zlib version: 1.2.3.4 (in Python interpreter) LZO version: 2.03 (Apr 30 2008) BZIP2 version: 1.0.5 (10-Dec-2007) Blosc version: 0.9.3 (2010-06-04) Python version: 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 18 2009, 03:00:47) [GCC 4.3.3] Platform: linux2-x86_64 Byte-ordering: little The heavy suite tests from the 2.2rc1 tarball also pass in a G4 running Mac OS X Tiger, but I first had to apply r4453 to fix the issue with barriers during build time. Sys-info:: PyTables version: 2.2rc1 HDF5 version: 1.8.4-patch1 NumPy version: 1.3.0 Numexpr version: 1.3.1 (not using Intel's VML/MKL) Zlib version: 1.2.3 LZO version: 2.03 (Apr 30 2008) BZIP2 version: 1.0.5 (10-Dec-2007) Blosc version: 0.9.0 (2010-05-04) Python version: 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] Platform: darwin-Power Macintosh Byte-ordering: big Congrats for the new release! -- Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- http://ivan.lovesgazpacho.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
