Re: Dealing with multi-processor or multi-core

[James Sentman <james at sentman dot com>]

On May 30, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:

>>
>> Sounds attractive, but then what is the best way to pass/retrieve  
>> data
>> to/from such processes, short of writing/reading files which may
>> defeat the
>> speed advantage of multiple cores?
>
> IPCSockets

or... as I already suggested ;), on the Mac side you can use the  
notification center to send messages between processes. And even send  
whole dictionaries with your data keyed appropriately so that you do  
not need to develop a protocol for sending data through a simple  
stream. That usually isn't that big a deal, but can be a bottle neck  
if you need to send a lot of it or very quickly.

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/pluginhelp/class-notificationcentermbs.shtml

That can almost certainly be done with declares now, but Christian has  
it all wrapped up there nicely.

Thanks,
James


James Sentman                       http://sentman.com          
http://MacHomeAutomation.com



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