Re: client-server parallellised number crunching

From	Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: client-server parallellised number crunching
Date	2011-04-27 15:15 +0100
Organization	University of Bergen
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:35:06 +1000, Chris Angelico
  <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
:  On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun 
:          <hg@schaathun.net> wrote:
: > That's correct.  And the client initiates the connection.  At the
: > moment, I use one thread per connection, and don't really want to
: > spend the time to figure out how to do it singlethreadedly.
: 
:  Threads work quite happily in Python if they're I/O bound, which they
:  will be if they're waiting for the client to do something.

Quite.  I was referring to some tutorials and documentation recommending
to use non-blocking sockets and select() within a single thread.  I
cannot say that I understand why, but I can imagine the benefit with
heavy traffic.

-- 
:-- Hans Georg

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client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-26 20:55 +0100
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 06:20 +1000
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 13:31 -0700
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 13:33 -0700
    Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-26 21:47 +0100
      Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 07:07 +1000
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 06:35 +1000
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 14:31 -0700
    Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 06:58 +0100
      Re: client-server parallellised number crunching geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 23:54 -0700
        Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 10:57 +0100
  Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-04-27 11:35 +0200
    Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 13:21 +0100
      Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 23:35 +1000
        Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 15:15 +0100
          Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-28 00:58 +1000
            Re: client-server parallellised number crunching Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-27 19:28 +0100

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