Is SYS V shared memory a totalyl stupid way of doing distributed locks between processes then?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathan Ellis Sent: 06 July 2005 05:45 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: threads and sleep? Peter Hansen wrote: > Jeffrey Maitland wrote: > > I was hoping that python would allow for the cpu threading such in > > Java etc.. but I guess not. (from the answers,and other findings) I > > guess I will have to write this part of the code in something such as > > java or c or something that allows for it then I can either wrap it in > > python or avoid python for this part of the app. > > Or investigate the use of Irmen's Pyro package and how it could let you > almost transparently move your code to a *multi-process* architecture Unless you're doing anything that would require distributed locking. Many if not most such projects do, which is why almost everyone prefers to use threads on an SMP machine instead of splitting it across multiple smaller boxes. -Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
