Re: Dealing with multi-processor or multi-core

["Peter K. Stys" <pkstys at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Joe Strout <joe at inspiringapps dot com> 
wrote:

>
> Yes, exactly.  Separate processes will be scheduled preemptively and,
> on multicore machines, may be distributed across the multiple cores.
> Yet because they're separate processes and don't share memory, all the
> subtle thread-safety issues that plague preemptively multithreaded
> programs simply go away.
>


Sounds attractive, but then what is the best way to pass/retrieve data
to/from such processes, short of writing/reading files which may defeat the
speed advantage of multiple cores?

P.

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Hotchkiss Brain Institute
University of Calgary
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