From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T06:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: slave-1.1.0

Tim Pease wrote:

<snip>

> > I don't know much about slave, but one question I have right off the
> > bat is why you would want one drb server per object, instead of just
> > one drb server that stored objects in a hash table that you could push
> > and pop at will.  Maybe I need to go back and see Ara's use case for
> > this...
> >
>
> Slave forks off a ruby object in a separate process and then uses DRb
> for communication between the processes.  Each forked process has its
> own DRb server.
>
> TwP

Yes, but why?  I assume the purpose is IPC.  If so, again I ask why you
would need 1 drb server per object instead of one drb server with lots
of objects.  If its purspose isn't IPC, what is it?

Thanks,

Dan