Matthieu Brucher wrote:
> I would say that if the underlying atlas library is multithreaded, numpy
> operations will be as well. Then, at the Python level, even if the
> operations take a lot of time, the interpreter will be able to process
> threads, as the lock is freed during the numpy operations - as I
> understood for the last mails, only one thread can access the
> interpreter at a specific time -

ATLAS doesn't *underlie* much of numpy at all. Just dot() and the functions in
linalg, nothing else.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco
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