Philip Semanchuk wrote: > On Oct 25, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Michael Sparks wrote: >> Glenn Linderman wrote: >>> In the module multiprocessing environment could you not use shared >>> memory, then, for the large shared data items? >> >> If the poshmodule had a bit of TLC, it would be extremely useful for >> this,... http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/ > > Last time I checked that was Windows-only. Has that changed?
I've only tested it under Linux where it worked, but does clearly need a bit of work :) > The only IPC modules for Unix that I'm aware of are one which I > adopted (for System V semaphores & shared memory) and one which I > wrote (for POSIX semaphores & shared memory). > > http://NikitaTheSpider.com/python/shm/ > http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc/ I'll take a look at those - poshmodule does need a bit of TLC and doesn't appear to be maintained. > If anyone wants to wrap POSH cleverness around them, go for it! If > not, maybe I'll make the time someday. I personally don't have the time do do this, but I'd be very interested in hearing someone building an up-to-date version. (Indeed, something like this would be extremely useful for everyone to have in the standard library now that the multiprocessing library is in the standard library) Michael. -- http://www.kamaelia.org/Home -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
