Multiprocessing or Multithreading?

Question

I\'m making a program for running simulations in Python, with a wxPython interface. In the program, you can create a simulation, and the program renders (=calculates) it for

Answer 1

I always prefer multiple threads for simplicity, but there is a real issue with affinity. There is no way (that I know of) to tell Python's threading implementation to bind to a specific processor. This may not be an issue for you, it doesnt sound like it should be. Unless you have a good reason not to, it sounds like your problem can be solved easily with Python's threading implementation.

If you do decided on using processed, sharing information between sub processes can be accomplished in several ways: tcp/udp connections, shared memory or pipes. It does add some overhead and complexity.