On Oct 25, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Michael Sparks wrote:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
In the module multiprocessing environment could you not use shared
memory, then, for the large shared data items?
If the poshmodule had a bit of TLC, it would be extremely useful for
this,
since it does (surprisingly) still work with python 2.5, but does
need a
bit of TLC to make it usable.
http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/
Last time I checked that was Windows-only. Has that changed?
The only IPC modules for Unix that I'm aware of are one which I
adopted (for System V semaphores & shared memory) and one which I
wrote (for POSIX semaphores & shared memory).
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/python/shm/
http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc/
If anyone wants to wrap POSH cleverness around them, go for it! If
not, maybe I'll make the time someday.
Cheers
Philip
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