distributed computing implementations

[Robin Becker]

In article <3e96efac$0$49107$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong
<irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVE-THIS-xs4all.nl> writes
>Duncan Grisby wrote:
......
>
>To add some more to the mix, I benchmarked Pyro (3.2) :
>
>Connecting to server
>Time to connect to server, 0.026004
>
>Sending a long string to the server
>Time to send a string of 21000 chars, 0.003536
>
>Recieving a long stirng from the server
>Time to receive a string of 22000 chars, 0.003387
>
>Sending lots of ints to the server
>Time to send 5000 ints, 10.057741 (0.002012 per call)
>
>I find this very fast for a pure Python solution....
>
>I also measured the message sizes with tcpdump as mentioned in the article:
>
>Actual message size sending 1,000 characters: 1390
>Actual message size sending 100 integers: 27698 (with CORBA amongst the 
>smallest)
.....was this on the same machine? I find things seem to be awful off
the machine even if I pass in a dotted numeric address. I'm getting the
idea that I'm doing name lookups even if there's no apparent need. 
>--Irmen de Jong
>

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Robin Becker