Python on multiple processor machines

[M.-A. Lemburg]

max at rightworks.com wrote:
> 
> I would like to hear some insights to running Python apps on multi-processor
> machines.  We are developing an app a good deal of it in Python and there are
> those amoungst us who predict that the Python interpreter would be forced to
> effectively serialize it's processing in order to be thread safe if running
> on a multi-processor machine.  We could run multiple interpreters, but this
> wouldn't provide the kind of scalability we need, and implies other problems
> of dispatching etc.  Our application does web based catalog management.  I
> need facts to keep me from becoming a Java programmer. thanks, max

Don't know what platform you use, but on Unix you can easily get away
with implementing a multi process model. Communication would be done
via shared memory or sockets. The latter even buys you clustering in
case IO should become a bottleneck.

As for free threading, Greg Stein is working on that idea:
http://www.lyra.org/~greg/ (I think it was).

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