[racket] network server with places?

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I don't know about the feasibility of making one of those marshall
> across a place channel but in the meantime does it make sense for you
> to read the request on the main place, send the data to a separate
> place to process and the send the result back? Or is most of the work
> in reading and writing the data?

Well, that's what I meant by "handling all socket I/O in the 'main'
place," and I'm afraid that's exactly what I want to avoid doing.

-Jon


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> Robby
>
> On Sunday, June 5, 2011, Jon Zeppieri <zeppieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to write a network server using places, where separate
>> client connections would be handled by separate worker places? Since
>> neither TCP listeners nor ports can be sent over a place-channel, I
>> can't figure out a way of doing this short of handling all socket I/O
>> in the "main" place --- the one that manages the listener.
>>
>> What I'd like is either for the workers to accept their own
>> connections (but that would require a shared listener) or to have the
>> main place accept connections but hand them off to the workers. I
>> don't know if there is any way to accomplish this right now, and if
>> there isn't, I don't know what the right approach would be.
>>
>> -Jon
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