• lime!@feddit.nu
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    7 days ago

    yup, that’s true. most meaningful tasks are io-bound so “parallel” basically qualifies as “whatever allows multiple threads of execution to keep going”. if you’re doing numbercrunching in pythen without a proper library like pandas, that can parallelize your calculations, you’re doing it wrong.

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      7 days ago

      I’ve used multiprocessing to squeeze more performance out of numpy and scipy. But yeah, resorting to multiprocessing is a sign that you should be dropping into something like Rust or a C variant.

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        Most numpy array functions already utilize multiple cores, because they’re optimized and written in C