On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:40:42PM -0400, Graham Fawcett wrote: > On 10/4/05, Will M. Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know what Twisted is, but you might have a look at Termite > > (mentioned in this blog > > http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2005/07/termite-lisp-for-distributed- > > computing.html ); it sounds like what you're talking about done in > > Gambit-C.
Hmm.... Twisted has a lot of the same look and feel of E[1]. > There's no threading > overhead, and such a "monolithic, non-blocking" design can handle a > very large number of concurrent connections, usually scaling better > than a multithreaded architecture. There is another large problem with threaded and, by extension, distributed programming (languages). Reproducability and Debugging. It is simply a serious nightmare if the above topic was never thought about in the inception of the codebase. Like where is the debugging manual for Twisted? It isn't obvious... -pete [1] http://www.erights.org _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
