Chandrashekhar kaushik wrote: > okay > so much for a few spelling errors and abbreviations used by me !! > we are losing the main point ! > i had a look at mercurial . It deals with SCM . I am typically > looking at an application thats to deal with geometry data ( tetras ) , > process millions of them and may be process them repeatedly ( iterative ). > It would basically involve client-server operations to first distribute data > over a computing network and then send requests to process the data > at the various nodes that contain the data.
I do essentially the same thing (only with pickles of constructive solid geometry definitions). > it is going to be multi-threaded. ... because? > Carl , what are the problems that could arise with threading ?? An old, but still relevant overview is here: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/Threads/index.shtml A good event-driven framework for Python is Twisted. It's what I use for the program I mention above. http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list