> There are just so many IPC modules out there. I'm looking for a > solution for developing a new a multi-tier application. The core > application will be running on a single computer, so the IPC should > be using shared memory (or mmap) and have very short response times.
Probably the fastest I/RPC implementation for Python should be OmniOrbpy: http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ It's cross-platform, language-independent and standard-(Corba-) compliant. > I have seen a stand alone cross platform IPC server before that could > serve "channels", and send/receive messages using these channels. But > I don't remember its name and now I cannot find it. Can somebody > please help? If it's just for "messaging", Spread should be interesting: http://www.spread.org/ Also cross-platform & language-independent. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list