Do you release scipy.sparse GIL functions?

Question

Question

Make scipy.sparse functions like csr._mul_matvecrelease GIL?

Context

Python functions that wrap external code (such as C) often call the GIL at runtime, allowing parallelism with multi-threaded. This is often found in the codebase numpy. Is it also common in scipy.sparse? If so, what operations does the GIL issue? If they don’t release the GIL, then the fundamental problem arises, why not or is it just a lack of human power?

Answer 1

They do, for Scipy versions> = 0.14.0