On 19 May 2005 17:01:11 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: >Jp Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than >> distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine. If you have >> serious scalability requirements, SMP is a minor step in the wrong >> direction (unless you're talking about something like 128-way SMP on >> a supercomputer :) > >See PoSH: > > http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/ > >The performance gain from multiple CPU's and shared memory is quite real. >I've been wanting for quite a long time to hack up a web server that >uses this stuff.
"performance gain" != "scaling" That said, PoSH is kind of an interesting idea. However, I prefer to share data between processes, instead of PyObject*'s: it performs better, wastes less space, incurs less complexity in the IPC mechanism, and interoperates with non-Python tools. Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
