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authorJulian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>2014-04-11 01:20:30 +0200
committerJulian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>2014-05-02 13:24:23 +0200
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ENH: replace GIL of random module with a per state lock
The random module currently relies on the GIL for the state synchronization which hampers threading performance. Instead add a lock to the RandomState object and take it for all operations calling into randomkit while releasing the GIL. This allows parallizing random number generation using multiple states or asynchronous generation in a worker thread. Note that with a large number of threads the standard mersenne twister used may exhibit overlap if the number of parallel streams is large compared to the size of the state space, though due to the limited scalability of Python in regards to threads this is likely not a big issue.
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