[Python-Dev] Re: Moving towards Python 3.0 (was Re: Speed up functioncalls)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> Wouldn't it be nicer to have a facility that let you send messages between processes and manage 
> concurrency properly instead?  You'll need most of this anyway to do multithreading sanely, and 
> the benefit to the multiple process model is that you can scale to multiple machines, not just 
> processors.

yes, please!

> For brokering data between processes on the same machine, you can use
> mapped memory if you can't afford to copy it around

this mechanism should be reasonably hidden, of course, at least for "normal
use".

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