19 lines
963 B
Factor
19 lines
963 B
Factor
USING: help.markup help.syntax concurrency.messaging threads ;
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IN: concurrency.distributed
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HELP: local-node
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{ $var-description "A variable containing the node the current thread is running on." } ;
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HELP: start-node
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{ $values { "port" "a port number between 0 and 65535" } }
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{ $description "Starts a node server for receiving messages from remote Factor instances." } ;
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ARTICLE: "concurrency.distributed" "Distributed message passing"
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"The " { $vocab-link "concurrency.distributed" } " implements transparent distributed message passing, inspired by Erlang and Termite."
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{ $subsection start-node }
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"Instances of " { $link thread } " can be sent to remote processes, at which point they are converted to objects holding the thread ID and the current node's host name:"
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{ $subsection remote-process }
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"The " { $vocab-link "serialize" } " vocabulary is used to convert Factor objects to byte arrays for transfer over a socket." ;
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ABOUT: "concurrency.distributed"
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