Help me use my Dual Core CPU!

[Simon Wittber]

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.