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How INRIA people envision OCaml's parallel future?
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Date: | 2005-06-24 (18:25) |
From: | David MENTRE <dmentre@l...> |
Subject: | XDR and ASN.1 (was: Re: [Caml-list] How INRIA people envision OCaml's parallel future?) |
Hello Eric, Eric Stokes <eric.stokes@csun.edu> writes: > 1. Gerd Stolpman has one of the best XDR RPC libraries written for any > language, it can certainly help improve the safety of a parallel > program a lot by enforcing that data is exchanged in a type safe > fashion, and it is also quite fast. It has a very nice rpc compiler > which allows one to specify fairly painlessly the structure of > messages. For your purposes, you could use unix domain sockets for > transport, perhaps even using socketpair to avoid book keeping on the > filesystem. http://ocaml-programming.de/packages/ I'm already using Gerd's RPC code to manage communication between my client and server. I second the praise of Gerd's code. > 2. If you prefer ASN.1 and BER <rant> Well, after doing some work on H.323 and related protocols, I try to avoid ASN.1 by all means. Speak of an overbloated protocol description system! </rant> Yours, d. -- pub 1024D/A3AD7A2A 2004-10-03 David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org> 5996 CC46 4612 9CA4 3562 D7AC 6C67 9E96 A3AD 7A2A