Hi Pavel, This is very cool. Is the code available?
Cheers, Doru > On Feb 12, 2018, at 10:33 AM, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.kriva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > among other less interesting things, I spent some time on existing > PosixSharedMemory project. It is a UFFI binding for the LibC methods > that provide support for the memory allocation between several > separate processes. I significantly improved the performance by > implementing the block access. Writing of 10MB byte array takes about > 1 millisecond, reading of it from other image took me about 4 > milliseconds. While serialization with Fuel is very fast, it opens > interesting possibilities. > To have a shared memory without synchronization tools is not very > useful so I wrote a basic UFFI interface for the POSIX named > semaphores. They are quite easy to use and work nicely with Pharo. The > VM can all wait on the semaphore or it can check the status of it > periodically in an image thread. It has two small disadvantages. It > requires to dynamically link the next library (pthread) and they must > be cleaned manually. I plan to look at System V alternative in future. > Now we should write a nice framework for inter-image communication on > top of it or/and adopt Seamless for it ;-) > > Cheers, > -- Pavel > -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "From an abstract enough point of view, any two things are similar."
