[zeromq-dev] Will socket multiplexing improve throughput?

[john skaller]

On 08/02/2012, at 1:48 AM, Staffan Gimåker wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 01:00 +1100, john skaller wrote:
>> On 07/02/2012, at 9:15 PM, Staffan Gimåker wrote:
>> 
>>>> 2) one pair for each thread w/o synchronization
>>>> How much better will 2) compare to 1)?Is it worth the complexity?
>>> 
>>> If ZeroMQ is the bottleneck, i.e. not the data source itself, then 2)
>>> will fare better, for two reasons:
>>> 
>>> * No synchronization.
>> 
>> It's not true there is no synchronisation, it just isn't explicit
>> in the user code.  You can't send data from one thread
>> to another by any means without some kind of barrier
>> to synchronise the caches.
> 
> You either didn't read the OP or you're splitting hairs.

Sorry, you're right.


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