Re: Dealing with multi-processor or multi-core

[Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>]

On 30-May-08, at 12:12 PM, Peter K. Stys wrote:

>
> 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?

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