Bryan Olson fakeaddress at nowhere.org
Thu Mar 8 04:48:02 EST 2007

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sturlamolden wrote:
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> If you want to utilize the computing power of multiple CPUs, you
> should use multiple processes instead of threads. On Python this is
> mandatory due to the GIL. In any other language it it highly
> recommended. The de-factor standard for parallel multiprocessing (MPI)
> uses multiple processes, even on SMPs.

That doesn't really work in Python. There have been projects to
allow Pythonic coordination of processes -- POSH had some good
ideas -- but none have reached fruition.

There's nothing like a close thing to a good defacto standard in
the area. Microsoft's Win32 threads can claim to get as close as
anything.


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--Bryan

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