Sig, Yes and no. OS threads can get expensive, and some (admittedly dated) literature shows an edge for asynchronous sockets and green threads over OS threads. That said, the blocking call+OS thread model is a lot easier to understand than are non-block calls, *especially* for OpenSSL. On balance I agree that it would be a good thing for us to do, not necessarily that it is the preferred course in general.
So let's say we go for the (in Dolphin speak) overlapped calls. Does NativeBoost do them now? Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Ocean (was Re: Less plugins, more Smalltalk code! (was: Re: Pharo 1.1.1 OneClickCogVm)) I think that this project would be good test-bed for testing a non-blocking FFI callouts. On 4 October 2010 23:23, Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> Noury, >> >> One of the other aspects that I find important is elementary efficiency. >> >> A lot of stream related code in Smalltalk is not efficient, the actual >> data is copied around like crazy, turning it from a stream to a collection >> and then back into a stream multiple times. For Zinc HTTP Components I made >> a lot of effort to make it possible to read data from a socket stream in >> true streaming fashion (instead of just returning a byte array). Now, the >> idea was then that for example JPEGReadWriter>>#nextImage would work >> transparaently on that raw stream. Sadly, the code in JPEGReadWriter and >> friends just reads everything into an array before it starts to work ! >> >> Doing a #nextPutAll: <some byte array> should really try never to copy the >> array. Similary, a #next: <count> into: <some byte array> should similary >> write directly into the given array. What I see in the current SocketStream >> is <censored/> ;-) > > This is why we implemented our own SocketStream in PostgresV3. > >> >> But OK, maybe this is easier said than done. The step from Smalltalk to >> system call should also not copy if that is possible, but then FFI and GC >> come into play. > > I wonder if there's a language, that provides socket access via FFI. > > > Levente > >> >> Anyway, good luck, I am willing to try using Ocean as soon as it becomes >> available. >> >> Sven >> >> On 04 Oct 2010, at 10:59, Noury Bouraqadi wrote: >> >>> >>> On 3 oct. 2010, at 16:28, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: >>> >>>> For Ocean to succeed, you either have to work really hard to make >>>> non-blocking calls (I'm thinking of SSL sockets), or you need the ability >>>> to >>>> call functions on OS threads. The calls need to block their calling >>>> Process >>>> and let the other Processes run as though nothing is happening. >>>> >>> You're right. >>> Another option is having a multi-threaded VM. Eliot seem to work on it. >>> So far we're working on cleaning up the design of basic functionalities >>> before going on. >>> Then, we'll try to find a workaround for non-blocking calls. >>> All ideas are welcome :-) >>> >>> BTW, some people (you included) proposed to help for the Ocean project. >>> Luc and I want to thank you and we are happy that others are willing to >>> help. >>> We thought about the best way to integrate others help. >>> Our conclusion is that we should first do alone (luc and me) the >>> reference design, before integrating other developers. >>> So, we all can work on solid foudations. >>> >>> Noury >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
