On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Aaron Brady <castiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > James, Hi. I'm glad you asked; I never know how "out there" my > comments are (but surmise that feedback is always a good thing). What > I was thinking was, I didn't know Virtual Synchrony, and I've never > used Erlang, but I'm interested in concurrency especially as it > pertains to units of work, division of labor, and division of context; > and generators are another way to divide context. So: I wanted to put > more of my background and interests on the table. What I said wasn't > directly relevant, I see. But it's not like I > "dissertated" (discussed) the Tibettan-Austrian spice trade. I think > I just want to say stuff about threading! Maybe I'm just excited to > meet people who share my interests... not unheard of.
Glad to see others also interested in these topics :) (snip) > 'Circuits' doesn't use generators. I think generators are an > underexplored technique. Is 'circuits' assembly line or start-to- > finish, if my analogy makes any sense? 'Circuits' is event-driven, > but I don't see any difference between 'event-driven' and > multithreaded in general. (I think contrast can create a good picture > and a clear understanding.) What is special about an 'event-driven' > architecture? Are you distinguishing blocking from polling? I'll shortly be releasing circuits-1.0 today hopefully. To answer your question, circuits is inspired by a software architecture that my most favoured lecturer a few years back was teaching. That is: * Behaviour Trees (design) and consequently: * The concept of "everything is a Component" * Systems and Sub-Systems are built upon Components and * Everything is an event. and * An emergent property of such systems are "Behaviour". That being said, circuits employs both an event-driven approach as well as a Component architecture. In your analogy it is both horizontal and vertical. As I continue to develop circuits and improve it's core design as well as building it's ever growing set of Components, I try to keep it as general as possible - my main aim though is distributed processing and architectures. (See the primes example). Thanks for sharing your interest :) cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
