Help me use my Dual Core CPU!

[John Henry]

I don't know what CPython is but I have developed a Python application
under Windows that utilize the Dure Core CPU when it's present.

I don't know that I can say for sure that "threads won't help".  Have
you done some testing before using other approaches to see if it indeed
won't help?


Simon Wittber wrote:
> I've just bought a new notebook, which has a dual core CPU.
>
> I write cross platform games in Python, and I'd really like to be able
> to use this second core (on my machine, and on user's machines) for any
> new games I might write.
>
> I know threads won't help (in CPython at least) so I'm investigating
> other types of concurrency which I might be able to use. I really like
> the PyLinda approach, however I need to be able to pass around all the
> simple python types, which PyLinda won't help me with. Also, PyLinda is
> more focused on distributing computing; I really only want to have 2
> processes cooperating (or 4, if I had 4 CPUs/cores etc).
>
> Is there any cross platform way to share python objects across
> processes? (I've found POSH, but it's old, and doesn't appear to be
> maintained). I could implement my own object space using shared memory,
> but from what I can see, this is not available on Win32.
>
> Are there any other concurrency options I've not discovered yet?
> 
> 
> -Sw.