On 26-Feb-08, at 6:37 AM, Jeff Read wrote:

  

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:39 PM, James Long <longster@gmail.com>  
wrote:
    

Heh, well, one of my side projects is a high performance graphics
engine.  True parallel processing is becoming extremely important;
though I'm still not sure of the best way to achieve it.  Using STM
can incur high lock contention, but going with the Termite model
incurs quite a bit of overhead with serializing/deserializing,
copying, and TCP packet construction/destruction.  It's possible you
could avoid the TCP overhead for local processes using pipes of some
sort.

      

It is possible to interface to Gambit's low-level I/O system, but it  
is not documented and non-obvious.  I will put together a brief  
documentation so that you can experiment with this.

Marc