Message 222042 - Python tracker

Message222042

Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	approximately, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2014-07-01.15:04:06
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Do you honestly have a situation where you need to share a computationally significant amount of hashing state only to want to finish the computation N different times with alternate computationally significant ending data that multiprocessing would actually help with where you cannot use threads? Hashlib releases the GIL during nontrivial hash computations.

Content

Do you honestly have a situation where you need to share a computationally
significant amount of hashing state only to want to finish the computation
N different times with alternate computationally significant ending data
that multiprocessing would actually help with where you cannot use
threads?  Hashlib releases the GIL during nontrivial hash computations.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-07-01 15:04:06	gregory.p.smith	set	recipients: + gregory.p.smith, rhettinger, pitrou, vstinner, approximately
2014-07-01 15:04:06	gregory.p.smith	link	issue11771 messages
2014-07-01 15:04:06	gregory.p.smith	create