sobjectizer VS eCAL

Message Delivery Tracing aims to debug an application built on top of SObjectizer. In essence, it logs the primary stages of the message delivery process, allowing visibility into whether there is a suitable subscriber with the corresponding event handler.

An additional rationale for structuring cooperations in hierarchies is to facilitate the sharing and propagation of dispatchers. A recent update of SObjectizer includes new functionalities that allow access to both agent and cooperation dispatchers. This enhancement was prompted by feedback provided by a user and myself.

If a stop signal arrives, it will be enqueued at the end as a demand for image_producer_callback. This means, it will be processed after the other 6 demands currently in the queue. Maybe this is not an issue but in some cases it might be. At this point, another feature of SObjectizer is to consider: agent priorities. Essentially, this feature allows for the demands to be handled in different orders based on the priorities of agents. In this context, if we assign image_producer_callback a higher priority than others, the “stop signal” would be processed before the rest of the requests.

The real solution consists in using another slick feature of SObjectizer: mutable messages.

However, this kind of filtering is inefficient and might result in a significant run-time cost. Indeed, every empty cv::Mat follows all the message handling workflow, only to be thrown out. Although we expect that empty images will be sporadic, a more idiomatic approach exists: delivery filters.

SObjectizer’s agent states are quite sophisticated and provide some utilities that might be useful for developing a working solution. First of all, image_viewer can be modeled as a two-state agent:

An alternative way is using SObjectizer’s timers.

Those who came looking for actor model examples should check out sobjectizer

In sobjectizer the ownership is held by "environment" , while in rotor each thread must held appropriate context, when actor environment is running.

May be actor frameworks like caf, sobjectizer or rotor is something, that you are looking for.

New version (5.94) of the high performance interprocess / interhost communication framework eCAL is available. eCAL supports different transport layer like shared memory for interprocess and udp multicast for interhost communication. It does not force the user to use a specific serialization format but supports some of the standards like google protobuf, capnproto or flatbuffers. The API is wrapped to C, C++, Python, C#, Rust and Go (the last two I never tested ;-)). Here you can find all the documentation. Check out the great applications for monitoring, record and replay. eCAL is Apache 2 licensed, repository hosted here. Have fun :-)

I you just need a fast publish / subscribe framework for windows you can give eCAL a try. The setup is done in less a minute and their is no dependency hell. Just to mention it as alternative. Documentation here

I would concider using eCAL since it blasts everything out of the water in terms of performance and comes with some handy tooling for inspection of messages in-travel.

Source on GitHub: https://github.com/continental/ecal

Check out eCal.

This really makes me want to try https://github.com/continental/ecal with https://github.com/google/flatbuffers to see how they compare. I also know that gpc for cpp at least stops functioning by about 4 MB of request size. Which I find stupid. What if I want to send uncompressed bitmaps!

Congratulations. Well done. eCAL will update as soon as possible to the new release. The new custom header and the n:m pub/sub support are really welcome new features.

Here is their counter callback example: https://github.com/continental/ecal/blob/master/samples/cpp/counter/counter_rec_cb/src/counter_rec_cb.cpp