How to use C extensions in python to get around GIL

Question

I want to run a cpu intensive program in Python across multiple cores and am trying to figure out how to write C extensions to do this. Are there any code samples or tutorials

Answer 1

Have you considered using one of the python mpi libraries like mpi4py? Although MPI is normally used to distribute work across a cluster, it works quite well on a single multicore machine. The downside is that you'll have to refactor your code to use MPI's communication calls (which may be easy).