[zeromq-dev] Notes from a hackathon
Maurice Barnum
msb at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Feb 4 21:34:06 CET 2015
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 2:05 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> I've written up my understanding of this thread: http://hintjens.com/blog:84
> Thread safety would solve the perennial problem of sending data via
> ZeroMQ, from short-lived threads. Performance in many cases would go
> up, not down. We see way too many apps that create/connect a socket
> for every message they send.
> Apart from that I agree that thread safety is a weird thing and only
> worth doing in very specific cases (ZeroMQ contexts and sockets seem
> to be good candidates).
For sockets, I've several times have wanted to integrate with a library that
uses callbacks on an implementation-defined thread (aka, "not mine"). I want
to take the data supplied with the callback and enqueue it to a worker that
uses minimal (preferably no) shared state with the rest of the application.
Since ZeroMQ sockets are not thread safe, I have to build my own queuing
mechanism and either not use ZeroMQ for this part of the application or live
with the complexity of a hybrid solution.
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