[PyQt] Multi-tasking and GIL

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Dienstag, 4. August 2009 schrieb NARCISO, Rui:
> Hi
>
> I have a quad-core linux machine and I would like to take advantage of
> all these extra cores to perform multiple heavy tasks simultaneously.
>
> If i understood it correctly, the GIL will prevent me from
> multi-threading this heavy tasks in order to make them run in parallel.
>
> My question is then, how to do this? Will QProcess be the solution? (the
> heavy tasks can either be ran by direct python acess through a run()
> function or in stand-alone when launched from the command line)

If you launch them via independant processes, the GIL cannot get in your 
way, since it's a python process internal flag.

> Thanks for your help
>
> Rui

I know, it's not your fault, but SCR:
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

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