Have you considered using queue's with multiprocessing? On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > Mutliprocessing means, data copying, talking to each other through PIPES, >> > also it has its issues with running on Windows (all function calls should >> be >> > pickelable) >> > >> > Threads seems pretty stable on most platforms where Python runs. >> >> Threads won't help you much because of the Python GIL. >> >> Regards, >> BG >> >> -- >> Baishampayan Ghose >> b.ghose at gmail.com >> ' >> > > The GIL is only limited to one interpreter. GIL comes into picture because > Threads in python create a new interpreter context, so the same interpreter > switches to new byte codes. The original idea was to create a new > interpreter for each thread, each one with its own GIL !!!. All within the > same process. > > Vishal > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >
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