i've only done a couple of these, but the filtering/routing/guiding function
seems very problem-specific.
in my case, i use PUSH-PULL underneath. the app code sends everything
via a guide function which is more or less data-type specific; it takes
a data blob to be sent and a guiding value and a guide type.
the types i use are
modulo (at each layer of the guiding, i hash the value and
send it to the i'th entity at that level, where i = hash MOD
n-entities)
segment (at each level, i search for the value in a table and send it
to the
corresponding entry)
currently i use modulo for values that are IMSI's (== 64 bit int), and segment
to do geographic
routing for values that correspond to radio-identifiers.
i only do two levels right now: level 1 gets you to a server, level 2 gets you
to a process.
but the scheme extends trivially to more levels, such as cluster or thread.
and teh hash isn't a normal hash because i only need to get a reproducible
uniform distribution out of it. so i simply break the value into bytes,
index some tables of (truly) random numbers and xor them together.
andrew
On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Staffan Gimåker wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 09:55 -0700, Andrew Hume wrote:
>> it is really a level or two of complexity
>> more than you would (or should) expect the library to do.
>>
>>
>> to my mind, we should do this sort of subscription stuff at user level
>> and use the zmq stuff to do routing. but what do i know?
>
> I don't disagree. I'm not asking for zmq to solve all our special needs.
> However, functionality that enables you to implement stuff that's
> outside of the typical use case would be nice. If the user could be put
> in charge of filtering altogether that'd be great (but probably tricky).
> Another way to go forward for us is having exact matching semantics,
> which I also think would be useful for other people as well.
>
> (I don't care much for regexp filtering and all that jazz, though.)
>
> /S
>
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