I think this is one of the best ideas since Inline::C. It would make prototyping distributed applications far easier. However, I don't know exactly how this would be integrated into the Inline package. It seems to me that a separate Perl package/API would make more sense.
Best regards, -Jason > Just a thought I've brought up once or twice elsewhere. I don't expect > this would work out of the box (hell, I personally wouldn't even know > where to begin trying), but something I'd love to see. > > Could the MPICH library (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/, > others?) be made useful to Perl using Inline. This would be relevant to > C and (someday?) FORTRAN. If it was possible to write Perl code (or > even hairier, perl code using PDL), that could make full use of > parallel processing and message passing, it could be a BIG (_BIG_) win. > Particularly in my field of bioinformatics, and probably academics. I > know of no real explorations into this as yet, and unfortunately don't > have the time to learn and play with developing this myself right now. > But I eagerly await news... > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sean P. Quinlan > http://people.ne.mediaone.net/squinlan/index.html > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year > of conversation" - Plato
