From: ReggW <me@...>
Date: 2006-05-28T22:52:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Threads...

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> Windows: one is sorely tempted to ask why you're considering Windows for 
> a
> seriously scalable application, but let's finesse it by noting that
> aggregate cost does become a significant factor with scale. So if you 
> have
> to use Windows, you're probably trying to meet a political requirement
> rather than a technical one ;-).

I'm not sure what you are getting at here , but Windows scales fines for 
me and my clients.



> Shared memory: no. Don't do that. Use IPC or network communications. No,
> don't do that either. Use a proper event-passing library that wraps all 
> of
> that up for you, so your remote-operation activations look like simple
> function calls. Remember, you'll want to run your multiprocesses on 
> multiple
> machines before you know it.

Where does this "event-passing" library reside?
Is it in Ruby, Perl, Java, C# or is this just a theory?



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