| From: | Douglas McLaughlin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 02:14:59 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Which is better: Message Ports or TCP Sockets? |
Hi,
> > On the new 'DE', which is the best method to pass data between tasks,
> > message ports or TCP sockets? Which would be the most compatible with
> > classic Amiga methods?
>
> You're going to have way more overhead with TCP sockets. I think that
> using kernel-based IPC (like message ports) is definitely the way to
> go. Besides, since you are going to be passing data between
> processes, they are going to be on the same machine (probably), so
> there's no need for TCP. You may also want to consider using threads,
> and just have them access the same data structures.
True, but there's no easy equivelant to threads on the classic Amiga
system, which I'm trying to develop my program on at the same time as
the Amie.
Doug (PGP key available upon request.)
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