Hi guys, I'm working on debugging a large python simulation which begins by preloading a huge cache of data. I want to step through code on many runs to do the debugging. Problem is that it takes 20 seconds to load the cache at each launch. (Cache is a dict in a 200Mb cPickle binary file).
So speed up the compile-test cycle I'm thinking about running a completely separate process (not a fork, but a processed launched form a different terminal) that can load the cache once then dunk it in an area of shareed memory. Each time I debug the main program, it can start up quickly and read from the shared memory instead of loading the cache itself. But when I look at posix_ipc and POSH it looks like you have to fork the second process from the first one, rather than access the shared memory though a key ID as in standard C unix shared memory. Am I missing something? Are there any other ways to do this? thanks, Charles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
