I hate it when that happens; you decide to use a 3rd party lib because it'll make your life easier. Instead you spend 95% of the development time fixing bugs, hacking to get the required behaviour. Then you think you would be better off using that time building the library you needed, with the exact features you needed and with actual control over what happens in your code. I think that's where node wins, with its low level API. Don't give me features, give me control.
2012/3/16 mscdex <[email protected]>: > On Mar 16, 4:46 pm, Jimb Esser <[email protected]> wrote: >> The server in question is not an http server, but a back-end >> simulation server running physics simulation for an online game using >> a Bullet native library. Yeah, I know, not exactly a typical (or >> perhaps wise...) use of node.js. We're 95% certain the Bullet module >> is the culprit, but that is hundreds of thousands of lines of 3rd >> party C++ code, not something feasible to poke in, and, like most >> physics simulations, not particularly deterministic when combined with >> the randomness of network latency and real user actions. Stand alone >> stress tests we've tried never exhibit the problem, and since it takes >> a fully loaded server a day to exhibit it, it's not likely to >> reproduce in a development environment. That being said, it >> consistently does reproduce on the production servers, so that is, >> theoretically, an easy way to debug it with post-mortem debugging >> (albeit with a day-long turn-around to test fixes). Heap dumps are a >> much more reliable way of tracking down heap issues in a large system >> than any "poke at different parts of the system at random" method, I >> was just hoping there was an easy way to get them reliably... > > FWIW I wonder if either of these javascript bullet ports are worth > trying/looking into?: https://github.com/adambom/bullet.js/ and > https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js/ > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
