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Re: Looking for an IPC solution

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On Friday, August 31, 2012 9:22:00 PM UTC+2, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> There are just so many IPC modules out there. I'm looking for a solution 
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> for developing a new a multi-tier application. The core application will 
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> be running on a single computer, so the IPC should be using shared 
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> memory (or mmap) and have very short response times. But there will be a 
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> tier that will hold application state for clients, and there will be 
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> lots of clients. So that tier needs to go to different computers. E.g. 
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> the same IPC should also be accessed over TCP/IP. Most messages will be 
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> simple data structures, nothing complicated. The ability to run on PyPy 
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> would, and also to run on both Windows and Linux would be a plus.
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> 
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> I have seen a stand alone cross platform IPC server before that could 
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> serve "channels", and send/receive messages using these channels. But I 
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> don't remember its name and now I cannot find it. Can somebody please help?
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
>     Laszlo

Hi,

Are you aware and have you considered zeromq (www.zeromq.org)? It does not provide a messaging system, but you could use things like simple strings (json) or more complicated things like Protobuf. 

Marco 

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Looking for an IPC solution Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-31 21:04 +0200
  Re: Looking for an IPC solution Marco Nawijn <nawijn@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 13:25 -0700
  Re: Looking for an IPC solution Marco Nawijn <nawijn@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 13:25 -0700
  Re: Looking for an IPC solution Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-31 13:36 -0700
    Re: Looking for an IPC solution Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-31 23:10 +0200
  Re: Looking for an IPC solution Wolfgang Keller <feliphil@gmx.net> - 2012-09-01 14:55 +0200
    Re: Looking for an IPC solution vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2012-09-03 14:43 -0700
    Re: Looking for an IPC solution Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-09-06 12:13 +0200
  Re: Looking for an IPC solution Aaron Brady <castironpi@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 19:10 -0700
    Re: Looking for an IPC solution Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-09-06 12:00 +0200
  Re: Looking for an IPC solution Aaron Brady <castironpi@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 19:10 -0700

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