[socal-piggies] From Will Roscoe's ad-hoc meeting

[Dan Stromberg]

Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> From Will:
>> The meetup was small but enjoyable. Here are some tid-bits...
>>
>> - Avoid threading when possible, use subprocesses and let the kernel
>> manage the resources. Brian and Chris joked about how they could have
>> told me "oh, threading is easy, go for it"
>>     
>
> What are you using to communicate between processes?
>
> I have used threads in Python, using queues to pass data around like so:
> http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/Queue/index.html
>
> and found it fairly convenient. Of course, there is the GIL, but I
> still experienced some parallelism due to I/O blocking.
>
> Anyway, I'm curious if there's some interesting and easy techniques
> for multiprocess communication.
>
>
> -Chuck
>   
The multiprocessing module makes it pretty easy to communicate between 
processes.

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