From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2012-02-07T10:59:03+09:00
Subject: Re: process_shared -- Python's multiprocessing for Ruby

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Heh, I know. Don't let me troll you too hard ;)

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Patrick has been doing some excellent work on the "process_shared" gem,
> >> which provides for cross process mutexes and shared memory, inspired by
> >> Python's multiprocessing library
> >
> >
> > Multiple processes, shared memory, and mutexes? Wow, it's truly the
> > worst
> > of both worlds! ;)
>
> Well, actually it avoids sharing memory because of fork, thus avoiding
> all of those odd race conditions. phew!
> This just lets you farm out work more easily.
>
> -roger-
>
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>
>


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Tony Arcieri

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