On Aug 12, 8:10 am, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > Good question but I try to explain what motivates me to do it. > First reason (I think the most important :-) ) is that I want to learn > something new - I am new to python (I am unix/storage sysadmin but with > programming > background so python was a natural choice for more complicated > sysadmin tasks). > Another reason is that our server (and I am responsible for it) has > many, many but slow cores (as I had written before). It means that > parallelization of operations is obvious - the developer is not keen > to spent much time on it (she is busy) - and for me this is something new > (among some boring daily tasks ... ;-) ) and fresh :-) > Another intention is to get some more knowledge about parallelization: > how to divide some task into subtasks, what is the most optimal way to do it, > etc > And the last reason is that I love performance tuning :-)
When you put it this way I better understand what you're after and why you do this. And I agree with all your points. Learning something new is a noble cause in itself. :) Sigmund -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
