From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-07-16T22:41:30+09:00
Subject: Re: which project should I work on?

Dominic Sisneros wrote:
> Create a package like pythons multiprocessing to make multi -process 
> code
> easier in ruby and also to unify the programming model between windows 
> and
> unix variants.

I am quite interested in multiprocessings

"A manager object returned by Manager() controls a server process which 
holds Python objects and allows other processes to manipulate them using 
proxies."

I envision refitting drb so that you can do something like
global_store = SharedHash.new

global_store[:shared_var] = 3
global_store[:shared_var2] = 3

Process.fork {
  proxy = global_store[:shared_var] # drb proxy object to the '3' in the 
main class
  proxy.to_s # proxy method call with marshalling, etc.
}

i.e. a multi-process friendly wrapper for drb to make it "easy to use 
among forked children"

I think this would allow for cross process mutexes 
(global_store[:mutex1] = Mutex.new; global_store[:mutex1].synchronize {} 
)

Thoughts?  Would this be useful to anyone?
=r
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