On 2010-06-25 14:54, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2010-06-25 05:17, Sean Kelly wrote:
Lutger<lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sean Kelly wrote:
Sean Kelly Wrote:
While I've never worked on systems where lives hang in the balance,
I have
worked on systems where 100% uptime is required. I favor the Erlang
approach
where a system is a web of interconnected, redundant processes that
terminate
on errors. I've found this design an extremely hard sell in the
internet
server world though. The design takes more planning and people are
in too
much of a hurry.
I should add that I'm hoping the message passing model in D will help
encourage reliable system design. With thread isolation it should be
pretty
easy to move parts of a program into separate processes as need
dictates.
Can we look forward to seeing ipc supported in phobos via the same
interface in
the future? I really like the api you have created.
Yes. The core send/receive API should work just fine for IPC, and it's
definitely on the map. The greatest obstacle there is probably the need
for a solid serialization/deserialization package in Phobos.
I have a serialization library, http://dsource.org/projects/orange/ ,
this is a list of some its features:
* It handles both serializing and deserializing
* It automatically serializes the base classes
* It supports events (before and after (de)serializing)
* It supports non-serialized fields (you can say that some fields in a
class should not be serialized)
* It's licensed under the Boost license
* It's fairly std/runtime library independent
* You can create new archive types and use them with the existing
serializer
* Serializes through base class references
* Serializes third party types
Currently it only works using Tango but the only part of the library
that is dependent on the std/runtime library is XMLArchive, I'm
currently working on porting it to Phobos. It also needs testing.
Also issue 2844 and the one, can't find it now, about getMembers is not
implemented at all (returns an empty array).
... should be fixed.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
