Help me use my Dual Core CPU!

[Simon Wittber]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> Simon Wittber wrote:
> > Michael wrote:
> > > Also, Paul Boddie posted a module for parallel systems a while back as well
> > > which might be useful (at least for ideas):
> > >    * http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/parallel
> > >
> > I've just noticed that os.fork is not available on Win32. Ouch.
>
> Sorry! My motivation was to support operating systems that I personally
> care about and which also have solutions for transparent process
> migration, which I believe could be used in conjunction with the
> pprocess module for better-than-thread parallelisation.

Ah don't be sorry! I don't care about Win32 a whole lot either, its
just that most of my target market use Win32...

> Rumour has it that recent versions of Windows provide fork-like
> semantics through a system call. Your mission is to integrate this
> transparently into the standard library's os.fork function. ;-)

I'm not sure I'm up to this kind of low level stuff, though if the itch
really starts to _itch_, I might have a crack at scratching it. :-)


-Sw