[Python-Dev] Cloning threading.py using proccesses (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Oct 10 18:03:32 CEST 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

Presumably with this library you have created, you have also written a fast object encoder/decoder (like marshal or pickle). If it isn't any faster than cPickle or marshal, then users may bypass the module and opt for fork/etc. + XML-RPC

XML-RPC isn't close to marshal and cPickle in performance, though, so that statement is a bit misleading.

the really interesting thing here is a ready-made threading-style API, I think. reimplementing queues, locks, and semaphores can be a reasonable amount of work; might as well use an existing implementation.

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