> If you want to make full use of multiple processors using pure python > code you'll have to use multiple processes.
This is absolutely true, but in practice it is a little more complicated. If you can factor your algorithm so that each process can be run completely separately, with no interprocess communication, then just using multiple processes will work fine. But once you need your processes to communicate in any way using sockets, there is another critical requirement to make the multi-process solution work in practice. You will absolutely need to use non-blocking sockets and the best way to do this in python is using Twisted. Now a bit of self-promotion....As a part of the IPython project we have been implementing an architecture that allows you to do parallel and distribted computing interactively in python/Ipython. This infrastructure solves many of the basic problems you will run into we regularly use it to take advantage of multi-core and multi-CPU hardware. For details, see: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Parallel_Computing Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
