Multiprocessing with Python

Posted by jaspertheghost on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:05PM
from the ibm.com dept.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-multiprocessing/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw97Python-Multi&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grsitelnxw97

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Re:Multiprocessing with Python by artificer on Thursday March 26, 2009 @09:00PM (#534444)

For those who want this functionality but use a version of Python older than 2.6, there is a backport of this module:

http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/

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Re:Multiprocessing with Python by hendler on Thursday March 26, 2009 @09:47PM (#534503)

How does this relate/interoperate with stackless python? http://www.stackless.com/

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Re:Multiprocessing with Python by jnoller on Thursday March 26, 2009 @11:56PM (#534662)

It's doesn't matter. It can run with stackless/within it, and you can use tasklets. This was designed to step around the GIL, not get involved in the coroutine/tasklet/etc rats nest.

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