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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:35:06 +1000
Subject: Re: client-server parallellised number crunching
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> w=
rote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:35:16 +0200, Thomas Rachel
> =A0<nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> w=
rote:
> : =A0As far as I understand, you acquire a job, send it to a remote host =
via
> : =A0a socket and then wait for the answer. Is that correct?
>
> That's correct. =A0And the client initiates the connection. =A0At 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.

ChrisA