xmlrpc idea for getting around the GIL

[Patrick Stinson]

that's right. I cannot make CPython calls from my original C-based threads.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Daniel Fetchinson schrieb:
>>>
>>> Has anyone every tried wrapping the CPython lib into a daemon with an
>>> RPC mechanism in order to move the GIL out of the process? I have
>>> multiple audio threads, each of which use the python interpreter but
>>> don't have to interact with each other and can might as well use a
>>> separate interpreter handled by a daemon with libpython linked in.
>>>
>>> I've never used a C xmlrpc lib before and would probably need to set
>>> up some shared memory to get it to work. Can anyone suggest a library
>>> out there that would at do that sort of thing, maybe with some
>>> cross-platform process management?
>>>
>>> I imagine this is how the multiprocessing module works.
>>
>> Yes, it does seem you need multiprocessing. That would take advantage
>> of multiple cores and the GIL wouldn't bother you at all. Take a look
>> at
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html
>>
>> For what you describe (separate tasks running concurrently without
>> communicating) the multiprocessing module would be ideal.
>
> The problem is that the OP has a embedded application running threads.
> multiprocssing doesn't help there.
>
> Diez
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