Re: [Pyobjc-dev] parallel processing

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 28 Mar, 2009, at 16:19, Daniel Ashbrook wrote:
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>
>> I have a note for the archives: don't use pyprocessing, it's basicly
>> dead at the moment (at least according to Jesse Noller, who wrote
>> multiprocessing).
>
> I thought R Oudkerk wrote py/multiprocessing? But yes, it appears that
> multiprocessing is included in 2.6 and 3.0, and is available as a
> backport to 2.4/5 (http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/).

Jesse is definitely the maintainer of multiprocessing, I'm not sure if  
he wrote it from scratch or borrowed the pyprocessing code for it.

>
>> W.r.t. hanging processes: can you reproduce that in a standalone
>> program?  I'm at Pycon at the moment and might be able to get access
>> to Jesse Noller to help research the issue.
>
> Unlikely that I could before you leave; this is happening in my
> massive thesis project, and trying to pull out the parts that break
> would be a pretty heavy undertaking, I'm afraid.

Doing that would be worthwhile in the long run though, if only to be  
able to document which restrictions exist and why they exist.

Ronald