Twisted an several CPUs

[Michael Sparks]

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Jp Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> writes:
>>   Distributing load across multiple machines scales better than
>> distributing it over multiple CPUs in a single machine.  If you have
>> serious scalability requirements, SMP is a minor step in the wrong
>> direction (unless you're talking about something like 128-way SMP on
>> a supercomputer :)
> 
> See PoSH:
> 
>   http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/
> 
> The performance gain from multiple CPU's and shared memory is quite
> real. I've been wanting for quite a long time to hack up a web server
> that uses this stuff.

OOooh that looks interesting - thanks for posting that :)


Michael.
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