[LAU] No batch processing on Linux?

Joel Roth joelz at pobox.com
Sun Sep 26 21:24:30 UTC 2010


On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:10:59PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Sunday 26 September 2010 06:45:42 Joel Roth wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:24:26PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > And because python afaik still
> > > has the big interpreter lock, effectively suppressing any python multi-
> > > threading. Which you work around by re-implementing your heavy-math parts
> > > in C and run them outside the interpreter lock (but still from within
> > > threads created and managed from python)...
> > 
> > What, no native threads. Mock horror!
> 
> Native threads: Yes.
> But only one python interpreter to run. At least in python2.X.
> As long as you call long-running non-python functions in the other threads, 
> you are fine (like the run() function of your audio-apps jack-engine).

Interesting. There do seem to be a growing number of python
apps for audio, video and music.

So far the unix process model serves my needs well enough.

Regards,

Joel
 
> Arnold



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