On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:26:26PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote:
> 
> I think this is probably not worth it.  If I were doing it, I'd
> implement it using pipes first, and keep the circular buffer idea up
> my sleeve as a potential performance tweak if the overhead on the
> pipes turned out to be a noticeable drag.

I'm currently in a crazy mood, so I am going to do this.  One reason
that I am going to do this is that replacing pipes once I have the
entire program written would be a real pain (interprocess
communication is going to be used very heavily by nfreenetd).  Another
reason that I am going to do this is because IPC would probably be the
only bottleneck for nfreenetd other than network bandwidth (which
wouldn't be a problem if you have a big pipe or even merely SDSL).
With big file downloads or inserts, the overhead from IPC would be
relatively small, but with lots of small file downloads or inserts,
the overhead from IPC would add up very quickly.

-- 
Travis Bemann
Sendmail is still screwed up on my box.
My email address is really bemann at execpc.com.
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