Archives June 20, 2009

What should networking look like?

I spent far too long today playing with two different networking systems.  The first was RabbitMQ and py-amqplib.  This seems pretty nice, you can send hundreds of messages in a fraction of a second... though it then seems to take *forever* to process them.  Appears to force in-order delivery, including an explicit ack from the ...

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This evening's pyqnet hacking brought to you by annoying neighbours

 Began work on simplifying the PyQNet API.  Got rid of blocking/non-blocking versions (everything is non-blocking now, though there's a "wait" operation to block until incoming messages are received).  Also simplified the callback-based (server) interface.  Added (optional) zlib compression to the packages and added support for arbitrarily sized messages.

Probably next up would be getting the ...

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