Python web development, really  Karsten W. Rohrbach karsten at
Fri Jan 24 20:06:40 CET 2003  Paul Rubin <phr-n2003b at> wrote:
> I'm not that crazy about threads either.  I don't understand
why more > multi-process servers don't use shared memory instead
of disk files,  SHM is an API which might have differences from
platform to platform. File I/O should be quite the same in the
POSIX world. Furthermore, files *are* RAM, in case of enough
RAM, so they are pretty fast. On most platforms you can mmap()
them and, together with working file locking, use them as sahred
memory with a pretty similar API but with better performance
(cf. libmm).  > or even (gak) SQL databases and worse.
Sometimes I wonder whether MPI  Abusing a RDBMS for cache data
storage dosn't look like a good design  > (the pseudo-shared
memory used in scientific clusters like Beowulf) > might be an
appropriate abstraction for programs like web servers.  MPI
implementations are very (versatile|general)(?). In case of web
applications, a large num