Tom Anderson wrote: >>I think to be effective, I need to use TCP_NODELAY, and manually >>buffered transfers. >> >> >Why? > Because of the big delays when sending small messages (size < 1500 bytes).
>Personally, i'd steer clear of doing it like this, and try to use an >existing, language-neutral generic marshalling layer. XML and ASN.1 would >be the obvious ones, but i wouldn't advise using either of them, as >they're abominations. JSON would be a good choice: > >http://www.json.org/ > > I need to send Python objects too. They are too elaborate to convert them to XML. (They are using cyclic weak references and other Python specific stuff.) I can be sure that on both sides, there are Python programs. Is there any advantage in using XML if I already need to send Python objects? Those objects cannot be represented in XML, unless pickled into a CDATA string. >And didn't get much in the way of answers. Someone did point to this, >though: > >http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/writing/protocol-design.html > > Hmm, this was very helpful. Thank you! Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
