OK, I will look at Ampoule and deferToAMPProcess while looking into the CorePost multicore support.
Thanks Glyph, Jacek On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Glyph <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Jacek Furmankiewicz wrote: > > > Which is the recommended way for interprocess communication these days? > > > > Is it the existing PerspectiveBroker or Ampoule (which uses AMP as the > underlying RPC protocol)? > > Are there drawbacks/benefits to either of them? > > Somebody should probably write an AMP vs. PB wiki page or something, this > does come up every so often. > > Briefly: PB's strength is that it allows you to serialize and synchronize > large, complex object graphs with relatively little effort, but more safely > and explicitly than (for example) Pickle would allow you to do. Doing this > with AMP would require specifying a large protocol with lots of object IDs, > and you'd have to manage their mappings yourself. > > AMP's strength is that it's simple and visualizing the wire format is easy. > Most importantly you can visualize the wire format by looking at static > declarations of commands and their responses, without ever examining any > code. This allows you to easily provide AMP interfaces between multiple > languages (for example, C#: <http://amp-protocol.net/AmpSharp>). This > also means that AMP is a bit more performant (on current trunk, on CPython, > ~2300 AMP/sec as opposed to ~1300 PB/sec). > > A bit more effort has been going into AMP lately because many core Twisted > developers now believe that AMP covers more and more common use-cases, and > that should generally be the default choice for most new protocol work. > > Bottom line: you should try AMP first, and if you find it's too tedious, > maybe give PB a shot and see if it simplifies your protocol code. > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-web mailing list > [email protected] > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-web >
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