I agree that this would be undesirable, but it doesn't have to be blocking. The 
simplest solution would be using ZMQ_NOBLOCK, the better solution using a 
non-blocking polling at a reasonable rate per second.
 We are using 0MQ for a game server, where low latency is the one thing that 
counts the most.


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Von: Nadav Samet
Gesendet: 07.02.12 10:41 Uhr
An: Martin Sustrik
Betreff: Re: [zeromq-dev] Thread Safe sockets

 How readable is that? And what about the global variables? etc.

 I absolutely agree that recv() is more readable than using callbacks, but it 
has the undesirable characteristic that it blocks the calling thread until the 
response arrives... Imagine an RPC server A with a few worker threads that in 
order to process a request from a client it needs to make a request to another 
server B. Having a worker thread on server A blocking on recv() from a socket 
that is connected to server B will hurt performance. The waiting thread could 
have been serving other requests while it has been waiting inside recv().
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