[Python-ideas] Adding shm_open to mmap?

[shibturn]

On 18/02/2012 11:56pm, Greg Ewing wrote:
> shibturn wrote:
>
>> If the receiving process is expecting an fd then that certainly works.
>> But making it work transparently with pickle is difficult.
>
> Is making it work with pickle a requirement? The point of using
> shared memory is to avoid the need for serialising and deserialising.
>

The point is to avoiding having to pickle/unpickle the *data*.  Being 
able to pickle/unpickle a *reference* to the data would be rather 
convenient.  Then, for instance, you can put references to blocks of raw 
data on a queue.

sbt