[Ironpython-users] multiprocessing?

[Jeff Hardy]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Ivan Pozdeev <vano at mail.mipt.ru> wrote:
> The usages of multiprocessing.Process are few and far between in
> multiprocessing.Pool.
> This is the most prominent one:
>
>         for i in range(self._processes - len(self._pool)):
>             w = self.Process(target=worker,
>                              args=(self._inqueue, self._outqueue,
>                                    self._initializer,
>                                    self._initargs, self._maxtasksperchild)
>                             )
>             self._pool.append(w)
>
> I guess you can just replace multiprocessing\process.py with a set of
> thunks,
> then happily import the stock mutiprocessing.Pool .

There's a ThreadPool class in pools.py (at the bottom) that does just
that using the multiprocessing.dummy module. If that isn't included in
IronPython, it should be, even if multiprocessing doesn't work 100%.

- Jeff