Kirk Strauser wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was thinking about how a lot of Lisp proponents claim that Lisp is >> inherently parallelizable because its functions don't have (or are not >> supposed to have) side effects, and therefore the compiler can easily tell >> which calls may be run in parallel instead of strictly serially. I'm not a >> Lisp expert so I can't say whether that's true or not, but it seems like an >> interesting idea for Python. > > By the way, I uploaded a sample implementation (in Python) of what I had > in mind to http://www.honeypot.net/multi-processing-map-python . Please > let me know what you think of it and whether it seems remotely > interesting or goofy.
Try the Processing package available at the Python package index. Create as many processes as you want, then toss the data you want processed into a Queue. Watch magically as your data gets processed. - Josiah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list