[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 3154 for 3.4?

Richard Oudkerk shibturn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 02:09:23 CET 2013


On 19/11/2013 12:55am, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Richard Oudkerk]
>> I tried using multiprocessing.Pipe() and send_bytes()/recv_bytes() to send
>> messages between processes:
>>
>>    8 bytes messages  -- 525,000 msgs/sec
>>    15 bytes messages -- 556,000 msgs/sec
>>
>> So the size of small messages does not seem to make much difference.
>
> To the contrary, the lesson is clear:  to speed up multiprocessing,
> the larger the messages the faster it goes ;-)

Ah, yes.  It was probably round the other way.

-- 
Richard


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