From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-11-18T18:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: romp vs drb

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Chad Fowler wrote:

> For now, I would choose drb, because it's "standard" and part of the 
> distribution.

this was my thought - but i need romp for log4r's distributed logging
anyhow...

> However, I was talking to Paul Brannan this weekend at RubyConf about this.
> My question to him was on the feasibility of replacing some portion of druby
> with romp (i.e. the actual communication layer).  Romp is quite a bit faster
> than druby, and now that druby is included with Ruby,  there's no reason to
> lament the fact that Romp is implemented in C.

any idea what 'quite a bit' is?  i've run some tests but i'm not sure they are
the best kind of test.

> Paul said this is probably possible.  Once the new RCR process is setup, I
> plan to submit one with this suggestion.

adding log4r (and romp distributed logging) would be a really great addition
IMHO.


regards.

-a
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