Thank you for that clarification. On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 19:54 -0600, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Darren Govoni <darren@ontrenet.com> wrote:
What you refer to is different than what I need. The real 'Process' implementation is new to Python 2.6 http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html and is not supported in Twisted at the moment. The Process or threads in Twisted now, use Python threading/process constructs outside of the new multiprocessing module, will suffer from the Python GIL limitations - which hinders higher performance computing. It works, sure. But its not what I'm asking about.
I think you're a bit confused. You said "use Python threading/process constructs outside of the new multiprocessing module, will suffer from the Python GIL limitations".
The "GIL limitations" *only* apply to threads, not processes. You can take advantage of multiple CPUs in Python by running multiple processes, no matter what technology you use to start those processes.