Re: Interprocess communication and memory mapping

2005-12-20 Thread Aguilar, James
Paul This is pretty useful for me. Appreciate it! My whole point is not that I actually want to do this, but that I want to make sure that Python is powerful enough to handle this kind of thing before I really invest myself deeply into learning and using it. I do believe that parallel computing

Re: Interprocess communication and memory mapping

2005-12-15 Thread Donn Cave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James Aguilar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > So, I have a couple of questions: > > * Is there any way to have Python objects (Such as a light or a color) > put themselves into a byte array and then pull themselves out of the > same array without any extra work

Re: Interprocess communication and memory mapping

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Boddie
James Aguilar wrote: > Suppose that I am writing a ray tracer in Python. Well, perhaps not a > ray tracer. Suppose that I am writing a ray tracer that has to update > sixty times a second (Ignore for now that this is impossible and silly. > Ignore also that one would probably not choose Python to

Interprocess communication and memory mapping

2005-12-14 Thread James Aguilar
Oh wise readers of comp.lang.python, Lend a newbie your ears. I have read several old articles from this group about memory mapping and interprocess communication and have Googled the sh** out of the internet, but have not found sufficient to answer my questions. Suppose that I am writing a ray