[Python-ideas] Thread IPC idea: Quipe? Sockqueue? (Re: Python and Concurrency)
Ron Adam
rrr at ronadam.com
Sun Apr 1 08:14:10 CEST 2007
Jim Jewett wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:
>> Jim Jewett wrote:
>> > What we really need is a Task object that treats shared memory
>> > (perhaps with a small list of specified exceptions) as immutable.
>
>> * A 'better' task object for easily creating tasks.
>> + We have a threading object now. (Needs improving.)
>
> But the task isn't in any way restricted. Brett's security sandbox
> might be a useful starting point, if it is fast enough. Otherwise,
> we'll probably need to stick with microthreading to get things small
> enough to contain.
>
>> * Shared memory -
>> + Prevent names from being rebound
>> + Prevent objects from being altered
>
> I had thought of the names as being part of a shared dictionary. (Of
> course, immutable dictionaries aren't really available out-of-the-box
> now, and I'm not sure I would trust the supposed immutability of
> anything that wasn't proxied.)
Not all that different. The immutable dictionary would be an implantation
detail of a locked name space I think.
I'm wondering if there might be a way to have an inheritance by container
relationship, where certain characteristics can be acquired from parent
containers. Not exactly the same as class inheritance.
>> frozen: object can't be altered while frozen
>> locked: name can't be rebound to another object
>
>
>> 3. Pass mutable "deep" copies back and forth.
>> ? Works now. (but not for all objects?)
>
> Well, anything that can be deep-copied -- unless you also want the
> mutations to be collected back into a single location.
It would need to be able to make a round trip.
>> 4. Pass frozen mutable objects.
>> - Needs freezable/unfreezable mutable objects.
>> (Not the same as making an immutable copy.)
>
> And there is where it starts to fall apart. Though if you look at the
> pypy dict and interpreter optimizations, they have started to deal
> with it through versioning types.
I didn't find anything about "versioning" at these links. Did I miss it?
>
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/interpreter-optimizations.html#multi-dicts
> http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/interpreter-optimizations.html#id23
_Ron
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