I've never heard of that before. I guess you can try importing sympy and running the tests in it, and that will tell you what works and what doesn't, at least as a start.
Aaron Meurer On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Alan Bromborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > No I mean parallel python http://www.parallelpython.com/ which gets around > the problem of the GIL. > > > On 04/27/2014 06:48 AM, F. B. wrote: > > I am not very expert of parallel processing in Python, but as no one else is > answering, and supposing you mean multithreading, I'll point out the problem > concerned with multithreading in Python. > > Python's main implementation, CPython, has a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), > which forbids the interpreter to create new threads. When you use modules > such as threads, CPython is still using a single thread which emulates > multithreading. I don't believe you will get some speedup, that threading > support looks more like a control flow on the code. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Interpreter_Lock > > Multiprocessing should be able to fork an independent process on the CPU, > but unfortunately a new process requires the memory space of the previous > process to be cloned as well, which may be not very comfortable. IPython > supports cluster distribution of computations on many computers. > > PyPy should have a better support for multithreading, as far as I know. > > On Friday, April 25, 2014 6:13:01 PM UTC+2, brombo wrote: >> >> Has anyone had any experience in using parallel python with sympy. It >> seems to me that there are probably a lot of loops that have independent >> operations. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/455f0bb6-5e0e-433c-81af-d68ab1da41ad%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/535CF1A7.3040603%40verizon.net. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6K2o8OXJX7temz1m8m8eB7XsAa9-O2HWn4s1r4bQOVQMQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
