On 05/10/10 17:21, Axelrod, Benjamin wrote:
> Maybe you are looking for something like:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/actionlib?
No really. Albeit actionlib provides asynchronous IPC-like interaction,
as far as I have understood, their semantics are ones of an action in
the robotic meaning, not of an IPC. In the ASEBA context, a service call
could be "read a value from a memory address in the microcontroller", so
the semantic is really one of an IPC; yet at the implementation level,
this operation might take some time. I could of course implement the
bridge using multi-threading, but then the bandwidth of the bridge would
be limited by the round-trip time with the microcontrollers, while with
asynchronous IPC at the service level, I could queue multiple requests
before getting the first answer.
All the best,
Stéphane
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Dr Stéphane Magnenat
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