[Python-Dev] Re: marking shared-ness

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:40:06 -0500 (CDT)


    Chris> I think, instead of shared globals, it would make more sense to
    Chris> have some explicit shared resource pool, which controls every
    Chris> access via mutexes/semas/whateverweneed. 

Tuple space, anyone?  Check out

    http://www.snurgle.org/~pybrenda/

It's a Linda implementation for Python.  Linda was developed at Yale by
David Gelernter.  Unfortunately, he's better known to the general public as
being one of the Unabomber's targets.  You can find out more about Linda at

    http://www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/linda.html

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