On Jan 3, 6:17 pm, Adam Skutt <ask...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 3, 5:24 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <calderone.jeanp...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Of course. The whole point here is not about threads vs processes. > > It's about shared memory concurrency vs non-shared memory > > concurrency. You can implement both with threads and both with > > processes, but threads are geared towards shared memory and processes > > are geared towards non-shared memory. So what most people mean by > > "use processes" is "don't use shared memory". > > This is entirely my presumption, but I think if the OP were keenly > aware of the differences between thread and processes, it's pretty > likely he wouldn't have asked his question in the first place. >
Fair enough. :) > Also, I've written lots and lots of "use processes" code on multiple > platforms, and much of it has used some sort of shared memory > construct. It's actually pretty common, especially in code bases with > a lot of history. Not all the world is Apache. > Hee hee, Apache. :) > Adam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list