On 10/11/10 05:19 PM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > On 10/11/10 03:13 AM, Darren Kenny wrote: >> Hi Karen, et al. >> >> I've been looking at this in a bit more detail, and I'm still not convinced >> that using the multiprocessing module in the Engine is the correct approach >> to >> this - sorry - but I'll explain why... > > I think Karen and I both agree that there's no need to convert to > multiprocessing now; the purpose of the investigation was to determine > if there were any barriers to converting in the future, should a > valuable use case present itself, and if such barriers exist and it's > significantly easier to remove them now than it would be later, to > consider the risk vs. reward of doing so. > > Based on her investigation and your response, I don't think there's any > barriers that can't be overcome later just as easy as they could now; so > there's no apparent benefit to overcoming them now. (That includes the > alternate proposal of running 2 checkpoints simultaneously in threads, > and having the threads spawn full subprocesses to overcome the > limitations of the Python threading module) >
I do tend to agree here, and I feel that this can be further addressed later, should there be a significant need for it, as a project in itself. Thanks, Darren. _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
