Help me use my Dual Core CPU!

[mystilleef]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> "mystilleef" <mystilleef at gmail.com> writes:
> > I use D-Bus (Python). I recommend it. I don't know how cross platform
> > it is. However, it supports message passing of most built-in (strings,
> > ints, lists, dictionaries etc) Python objects accross processes. You
> > can mimick clean Erlang-like concurrency with it. It is the future of
> > IPC on Desktop Unix. Given Python's crippled threading implementation,
> > it can play a role in making your Python applications scalable, with
> > regards to concurrency. I am recommending D-Bus because I have used it,
> > and I know it works. I didn't read this of a newsgroup or mailing list.
>
> It looks useful, but as far as I can tell, it's just another IPC
> thingie that works through sockets, sort of like pyro without the
> remote objects.  I don't see how it's related to Erlang-like
> concurrency (which means ultralightweight coroutines, not heavyweight
> Unix or Windows processes).  I think Python concurrency schemes get
> interesting when they at least share memory (like POSH).  Otherwise I
> think of them more as "distributed" than "concurrent".

I always forget to bring up Stackless Python in this kinda discussions.
I haven't used, but I plan porting one of my projects to it.

http://www.stackless.com/about/sdocument_view