On Friday, August 31, 2012 9:22:00 PM UTC+2, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > There are just so many IPC modules out there. I'm looking for a solution > > for developing a new a multi-tier application. The core application will > > be running on a single computer, so the IPC should be using shared > > memory (or mmap) and have very short response times. But there will be a > > tier that will hold application state for clients, and there will be > > lots of clients. So that tier needs to go to different computers. E.g. > > the same IPC should also be accessed over TCP/IP. Most messages will be > > simple data structures, nothing complicated. The ability to run on PyPy > > would, and also to run on both Windows and Linux would be a plus. > > > > I have seen a stand alone cross platform IPC server before that could > > serve "channels", and send/receive messages using these channels. But I > > don't remember its name and now I cannot find it. Can somebody please help? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Laszlo
Hi, Are you aware and have you considered zeromq (www.zeromq.org)? It does not provide a messaging system, but you could use things like simple strings (json) or more complicated things like Protobuf. Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list