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Advanced Python Programming
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Advanced Python Programming

by Dr. Gabriele Lanaro, Quan Nguyen, Sakis Kasampalis
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Parallel Cython with OpenMP

Cython provides a convenient interface to perform shared-memory parallel processing through OpenMP. This lets you write extremely efficient parallel code directly in Cython without having to create a C wrapper.

OpenMP is a specification and an API designed to write multithreaded, parallel programs. The OpenMP specification includes a series of C preprocessor directives to manage threads and provides communication patterns, load balancing, and other synchronization features. Several C/C++ and Fortran compilers (including GCC) implement the OpenMP API.

We can introduce the Cython parallel features with a small example. Cython provides a simple API based on OpenMP in the cython.parallel module. The simplest way to ...

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