[gambit-list] 0mq with Gambit

Feng Hou houfen at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 23:04:18 EDT 2011


Hello everyone,

Gambit has great concurrency support by green-thread and no-blocking I/O
scheduling. However, they are only able to use one native thread on
multicore hardware. I have noticed some wish list on wiki for
multicore/multiprocessing concurrency support. I'm wondering whether 0MQ (
http://www.zeromq.org/) can be used as substance for Gambit to build
such capabilities.

My thoughts are,

-- Not just a FFI binding.
-- Use it as message passing broker for multicore and distributed
concurrency.
-- Share nothing between the GVM thread and other in-process native threads
(doing long CPU bound computation or blocking I/O).
-- How to integrate 0MQ inter-thread transport to gambit green-thread
scheduler without blocking it?
-- Would it be possible to bind 0MQ inter-thread socket to gambit mailbox?
-- How to integrate 0MQ I/O event poller with gambit I/O loop?
-- Would it be better to expose 0MQ IPC/TCP/PGM socket types as Gambit Port
objects?

I realized they were way beyond my knowledge and skill level to implement
(some may not even make sense, please correct me). Nevertheless, just want
to see if others have similar thoughts or needs.

Cheers,
Feng Hou
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