[zeromq-dev] Using multiple contexts

[Chuck Remes]

On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Christian Martinez wrote:

> Is there a downside to using multiple contexts? I have a class wrapper I’d like to keep as simple as possible. I can either modify it to allow multiple connects, sockets etc under a single context or leave it as is and have clients of the wrapper instantiate it multiple times.
>  

Two downsides as I see it.

1. Tying up resources to no good effect (extra memory footprint, another I/O thread, etc)

2. Sockets created in different contexts *cannot* communicate with each other using the 'inproc' transport. The name 'inproc' is a bit of a misnomer; it really means "intracontext."

cr


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