romp vs drb

[Ara.T.Howard]

any opinions one way or another?

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[Chad Fowler]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

#
# any opinions one way or another?
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# -a
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For now, I would choose drb, because it's "standard" and part of the
distribution.

However, I was talking to Paul Brannan this weekend at RubyConf about
this. My question to him was on the feasibility of replacing some portion
of druby with romp (i.e. the actual communication layer). Romp is quite a
bit faster than druby, and now that druby is included with Ruby, there's
no reason to lament the fact that Romp is implemented in C.

Paul said this is probably possible. Once the new RCR process is setup, I
plan to submit one with this suggestion.

Chad

[Ara.T.Howard]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Chad Fowler wrote:

> For now, I would choose drb, because it's "standard" and part of the
> distribution.

this was my thought - but i need romp for log4r's distributed logging
anyhow...

> However, I was talking to Paul Brannan this weekend at RubyConf about this.
> My question to him was on the feasibility of replacing some portion of druby
> with romp (i.e. the actual communication layer). Romp is quite a bit faster
> than druby, and now that druby is included with Ruby, there's no reason to
> lament the fact that Romp is implemented in C.

any idea what 'quite a bit' is? i've run some tests but i'm not sure they are
the best kind of test.

> Paul said this is probably possible. Once the new RCR process is setup, I
> plan to submit one with this suggestion.

adding log4r (and romp distributed logging) would be a really great addition
IMHO.


regards.

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