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I know it's not the same thing, but I quite liked multiprocessing. Although it's severely limited in terms of passing objects around and there is always the ove
by makmanalp 16y ago
I know it's not the same thing, but I quite liked multiprocessing. Although it's severely limited in terms of passing objects around and there is always the overhead of spawning new processes.
As a sidenote, the John Nagle there is the same one in Nagle's algorithm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm
- jnoller 16y agoGood to hear (thanks)! Alas, multiprocessing will always be slagged by the serialization and deserialization of objects. Note, I'm the maintainer, so I'm not trolling :)
- makmanalp 16y agoSheesh, all these years you think people who write core modules are robots and then one day one comes up and replies to you on a message board! :) What you say is true, but in any case, my congratulations on a very pretty API.
- eru 16y agoHe might still be a robot. :o)
- ableal 16y agoEspecially in the original sense of hard-working "biological entities that can be mistaken for humans" ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Ro... Incidentally, another story by Karel Čapek - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_at_Large http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Absolute_at_Large - features a "reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy [and] as a by-product, the absolute. The absolute is a spiritual essence".
- eru 16y agoI immensely enjoy "War with the Newts" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts) and only realized after reading the Wikipedia page, that it is by the same author, Karel Čapek.