[zeromq-dev] preparing bindings for 2.1 release?
Alexey Ermakov
zee at technocore.ru
Fri Oct 1 11:35:30 CEST 2010
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:58 PM, gonzalo diethelm <gdiethelm at dcv.cl> wrote:
>> 1. 0MQ sockets can be migrated between threads. This is important for
>> the bindings. For example, if 0MQ socket is passed to distinct gc thread
>> once it is not used, the fact that it have been passed to different OS
>> thread may have caused troubles till now. With 2.1 this kind of thing is
>> legal. The same applies to languages that pass objects between OS
>> threads even during their lifetime (Erlang).
>
> Does this have any impact in the binding implementation? I would say no.
I think that you still need to ensure a memory barrier for a socket
migrating between threads. Not sure what's the cheapest way to do that
in JNI. Maybe it would be easier to declare send()/recv()/*sockopt
synchronized?
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