Re: [Chicken-users] Updating the zmq egg

[Daniel Leslie]

Just a thought; but does nanomsg interoperate nicely with protobuf?

-Dan

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From: Matt Gushee

Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 11:35 AM

To: address@hidden

Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Updating the zmq egg

First of all, thanks to all who responded - especially Thomas, for the extended code example.

I think I may use nanomsg after all.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Kristian Lein-Mathisen <address@hidden> wrote:

 

The main reason I wanted to try nanomsg was that it offers Level-triggered Polling. This allows us to do thread-wait-for-i/o on a nanomsg-socket, waiting for a message while other Chicken threads are running. We couldn't solve this with zmq because the zmq_poll C call (just like all C calls) would block the Chicken world.

So I discovered. And I'm not sure yet if this will affect my project - it's a great big experiment - but I think there's a significant chance of it.

No final decision yet. But I did see that even though nanomsg doesn't appear to have a large community yet, it was created by one of the original 0MQ developers, and seems to have good reasons for existing.

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Matt Gushee