Hi Steve,
thats a good news. I will try the beta at the digital garden server when I ve got some
free time
next week.
Jeff - should we refresh the mirror sites?
Greetings
Mirko
> hi guys,
>
> after a long, meandering journey through the ancient temples of
> Chichen Itza, the City of Angels and the Hills of Beverly, VNet
> v1.1beta2 is now available for your downloading pleasure at:
>
> http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/sfwhite/vnet/
>
> there's not much exciting new in this release; i just wanted to clean
> up the networking code and hopefully release it v1.1 before moving on
> and going into beta on 1.2.
>
> i've reworked the networking slightly on both the client and server
> side, so it's simpler and (hopefully) more robust.
>
> each client now has three threads: a reader thread (VUser on the
> server side and ClientThread on the client side), a writer thread
> (WriterThread) and a timer thread (TimerThread).
>
> so the client looks like this:
>
> Dispatcher -> TimerThread -> WriterThread -> network
> network -> ClientThread -> Dispatcher
>
> and the server looks like this:
>
> VSystem -> TimerThread -> WriterThread -> network
> network -> VUser
>
> TimerThread acts like a "gate", passing through important messages
> immediately to the WriterThread, and holding transient messages
> back.
>
> WriterThread blocks until it receives a message, sends that message,
> and loops. pretty simple. each is connected by a MessageQueue.
> in the case of WriterThread, it's a BlockingMessageQueue which will
> block until a new message is available.
>
> it's also up & running at waterloo; if you want to test it out that
> would be great.
>
> stephen
>
> --
> stephen f. white
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/sfwhite/
> i'm not a complete idiot; some parts are missing.
>
