threading support in python

mystilleef mystilleef at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 06:29:08 EDT 2006


You can use multiple processes to simulate threads via an IPC
mechanism. I use D-Bus to achieve this.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

km wrote:
> Hi all,
> Are there any alternate ways of attaining true threading in python ?
> if GIL doesnt go  then does it mean that python is useless for
> computation intensive scientific applications which are in need of
> parallelization in threading context ?
>
> regards,
> KM
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On 4 Sep 2006 07:58:00 -0700, bayerj <bayerj at in.tum.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > GIL won't go. You might want to read
> > http://blog.ianbicking.org/gil-of-doom.html .
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Justin
> >
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> >




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