multithreading concept

[S.Mohideen]

I would like to add my problem in this thread.
I have a network application in Python which sends and recv using a single 
socket.
There is a dictionary on which I store/read data values. I want to seperate 
the send and recv functionality on two different processes so that the 
parallel execution becomes fast. Is there any way to do so, so that the 
Dict's consitency is not lost(able to read & write) and also the performance 
improves. I am looking upon the MPI4Py module to see if it does the job for 
me. Any ideas would be appreciated.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergei Organov" <osv at javad.com>
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: multithreading concept


> "sturlamolden" <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> writes:
>> On Feb 7, 6:17 pm, John Nagle <n... at animats.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> MPI does not use threads on SMPs because it performs worse than using
>> multiple processes.
>
> I fail to see how threads in general could perform worse than
> processes. I do understand that processes are inherently more
> safe/secure, but when it comes to speed I really can't imagine why it
> could happen that threads perform worse (poor threads implementation and
> programming practices aside). Care to give some references?
>
> -- Sergei.
>
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