Dhammika, > I like msg groups idea, but it sounds more like an application feature. > > I was thinking about application level framing, adding a msg header, > body and checksum. If we can setup different buffers for each msg > segment, then sender won't have to create a contiguous block and > receiver can avoid having to strip off header and trailer. I suppose > this'll be useful for large messages, where copying buffers is a > problem.
Yes. Both scatter/gather approach and message group would allow you to implement this kind of thing. Actually, they are functionally equivalent. The reason why I prefer the message group is that it doesn't break existing API (put asside additional ZMQ_GROUP constant). Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
