On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:24:50 +0100, Nitro <nitro@dr-code.org> wrote:
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How big is the actual performance impact? The throughput right now is ~10- 50 kbyte/s. Is there a better way than pipes? They were just the first thing that came to my mind.
TCP connections are the thing which is better. ;) Now that I think of it, though, I don't know anything about how pipes are implemented on Windows.
If pipes are still ok for my situation, how would I continue? Implement some kind of PipeCommunication class which implements IProtocol? What's the next step then? How do I plug this into pb?
You'll have to implement ITCPTransport based on a pipe. You can probably re-use some code in Twisted for this. For example, FileDescriptor from twisted.internet.abstract might provide part of the implementation for you. You might want to look at a few other things in twisted.internet.interfaces, too (eg, IReactorFDSet). Jean-Paul