[nanomsg] Re: Routing plan

  • From: Paul Colomiets <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:24:14 +0200

Hi Martin,

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/02/13 10:46, Schmurfy wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if you had plans to have some routing support like
>> xs/zmq allowing the use of what was called devices in zmq.
>
>
> Yes, devices are important for any scalable topology. I even believe their
> design in 0MQ was a good one and there's no reason to change it in nanomsg.
> So the only work to do is to churn out the code.
>
> Btw, in the long term I see devices as something that's managed by admins
> rather than by programmers. They should be able to start/stop/move devices
> according to actual application needs. Maybe even do all the above from the
> administrative console.
>

So they must have binaries for the devices included, so you don't need
to write any code to spawn a device. Any plans on this?

Also don't you think that thread per device is too wasteful?

-- 
Paul

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