Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Holden
Mike D wrote: > Steve, > > You raise some very good (and obvious) issues I did'nt consider. I'll > look further into this sort of implementation as I'm quite interested. > > I suppose a compromise could be to load the objects from a pickle, that > may have issues in terms of updating the pickle

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Mike D
Steve, You raise some very good (and obvious) issues I did'nt consider. I'll look further into this sort of implementation as I'm quite interested. I suppose a compromise could be to load the objects from a pickle, that may have issues in terms of updating the pickle perhaps, though it would be m

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Holden
Mike D wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for the response. My question really comes down to, as you > suggested, premature optimization. > > It is more for my own understanding than a current practical use. > > If an object is loaded into memory and other threads(or processes) can > recieve a pointer

RE: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Mike D
Steve, Thanks for the response. My question really comes down to, as you suggested, premature optimization. It is more for my own understanding than a current practical use. If an object is loaded into memory and other threads(or processes) can recieve a pointer to this location, would this not

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Steve Holden
Mike D wrote: > Hello, I've just picked up the Python language and am really enjoying it. > > I've just signed up to this mailing list and I'm looking forward to > taking part in some discussions. > > My first post is a question I've been pondering for the last couple of days: > > For relativel

Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-30 Thread Mike D
Hello, I've just picked up the Python language and am really enjoying it. I've just signed up to this mailing list and I'm looking forward to taking part in some discussions. My first post is a question I've been pondering for the last couple of days: For relatively static data (such as a list),