[Eric] About eric and multi-core usage.

Martin Höfling martin.hoefling at gmx.de
Thu Mar 20 15:28:47 GMT 2008


Am Donnerstag 20 März 2008 15:11:11 schrieb objectref:

Hi objectref,

> I observed a funny thing and I am just curious about it:
> As Eric being written in PyQt, in Python that is, it cannot actually use
> more than one processors due to Python GIL and all this story about it.
> But when I tried an operation that take some time to complete, I saw both
> processors in my dual core laptop being used!

You can put workload in seperate Threads using a seperate cpu, in Qt as well 
as PyQt. Not sure about windows but in principle it should work there too.

Best
	Martin



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