Re: client-server parallellised number crunching

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> But question: Why are you doing major number crunching in Python? On
> your quad-core machine, recode in C and see if you can do the whole
> job without bothering the unreliable boxen at all.

Hmm, or try Cython or PyPy.  ^_^

Here's that graph again:
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/backshift/performance/

I'd suggest that rewriting an entire software system in C because of
one inner loop, is overkill.  'better to rewrite just the inner loop
(if needed after profiling), and leave the rest in Python.

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client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-26 20:55 +0100
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 06:20 +1000
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 13:31 -0700
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 13:33 -0700
    Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-26 21:47 +0100
      Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 07:07 +1000
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 06:35 +1000
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 14:31 -0700
    Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 06:58 +0100
      Re: client-server parallellised number crunching geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 23:54 -0700
        Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 10:57 +0100
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    Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 13:21 +0100
      Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 23:35 +1000
        Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 15:15 +0100
          Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-28 00:58 +1000
            Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 19:28 +0100

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