Re: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-07 Thread John Nagle
sturlamolden wrote: On Jun 5, 11:02 am, pataphor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is probably not very central to the main intention of your post, but I see a terminology problem coming up here. It is possible for python objects to share a reference to some other object. This has nothing to do w

Re: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-05 Thread sturlamolden
On Jun 5, 11:02 am, pataphor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably not very central to the main intention of your post, > but I see a terminology problem coming up here. It is possible for > python objects to share a reference to some other object. This has > nothing to do with threads or

Re: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-05 Thread pataphor
In article <877a5774-d3cc-49d3-bb64-5cab8505a419 @m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > I don't see pyprocessing as a drop-in replacement for the threading > module. Multi-threading and multi-processing code tend to be > different, unless something like mutable objects in share

RE: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-04 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Christian Heimes wrote: > Can you provide a C implementation that compiles under VS 2008? Python > 2.6 and 3.0 are using my new VS 2008 build system and we have dropped > support for 9x, ME and NT4. If you can provide us with an > implementation we *might* consider using it. You'd have to at leas

Re: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-04 Thread Christian Heimes
sturlamolden schrieb: > There is a well known C++ implementation of cow-fork on Windows, which > I have slightly modified and ported to C. But as the new WDK (Windows > driver kit) headers are full of syntax errors, the compiler choke on > it. :( I am seriously considering re-implementing the whole

Re: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-04 Thread sturlamolden
On Jun 4, 11:29 pm, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tested the executable on Windows. COW (copy-on-write, for those still > thinking that we're talking about dairy products) would be pretty > desirable if it's feasible, though. There is a well known C++ implementation of cow-fork on Wind

Re: multiprocessing module (PEP 371)

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Boddie
On 4 Jun, 20:06, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even a non-COWfork > would be preferred. I will strongly suggest something is done to add > support for os.fork to Python on Windows. Either create a full cow > fork using ZwCreateProces