Release GIL

Open mrocklin opened this issue 9 years ago • 2 comments

Should this library safely release the GIL around compress and decompress calls? This would allow the use of this library in parallel on multiple cores within a single process.

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/python-cookbook-3rd/9781449357337/ch15s07.html

Mar 01 '16 05:03 mrocklin

Oh, I see that this has already been implemented in #45

Mar 01 '16 05:03 mrocklin

https://github.com/python-lz4/python-lz4 is the new project page, with many new updates to functionality, including an implementation of the LZ4 frame standard.

Jan 28 '18 12:01 jonathanunderwood