[zeromq-dev] Thread Safe sockets

[Pieter Hintjens]

You will want to back up any assumptions of performance with reproducible
figures. Also you mentioned Felix twice. :)

-Pieter
On Feb 3, 2012 11:31 PM, "john skaller" <skaller at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

>
> On 04/02/2012, at 7:13 AM, Gleb Peregud wrote:
>
> > I have a slightly bad feeling about adding additional overhead to
> > zeromq core, which is supposed to be as performant as possible.
>
> The overhead is:
>
>        inline bool thread_safe() const { return thread_safe_flag; }
>
>        if( socket->thread_safe()) // x2
>
> This is a pretty small overhead for an operation that is supposed to
> send/receive data over a network. The overhead is a greater %
> for set/get socket options.
>
>
> > In Erlang erlzmq2 bindings it has been solved in the following way:
>
> []
>
> > Is similar structure possible to implement in Felix?
>
> Possibly, I don't know. Felix doesn't currently need thread safe sockets,
> fibres are always scheduled within a pthread. I didn't provide thread safe
> sockets for Felix.
>
> --
> john skaller
> skaller at users.sourceforge.net
>
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