in reply to shared memory and objects

mod_perl does something similar - you might want to look at that.

Also, you might want to look at threading your application. It's basically multi-process, but data is shared by default, not unshared by default. Of course, there's a host of new problems that goes along with that, but if you want to ...

Another option is to use SOAP or XML-RPC or some other client/server option. I do that with XML-RPC and it works out really great.

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Re^2: shared memory and objects
by perrin (Chancellor) on Oct 26, 2004 at 04:23 UTC
    mod_perl dooes not do something similar. There is no read/write sharing of data. Threads do not share objects either, although you can sort of work around this by blessing the data structures in every thread.