[Twisted-Python] Some suggestions
Glyph Lefkowitz
glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Fri Aug 10 17:05:20 MDT 2001
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Itamar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I spent some time on my 11 hour flight to the US porting my servers to
> twisted, and here's what I've come up with so far:
>
> 0) Twisted is very cool.
We know, of course, but glad to hear it anyway :)
> 1) Pickle on save should be optional.
> One of my objects is unpicklable, so every time I shutdown I get an
> exception. You could say I should rewrite, but I feel developing a
> server should not have to support all kinds of extra features that
> twisted provides. Obviously it'd be nice to have them, but it's one more
> thing you have to learn up front that isn't really necessary.
I think moshe has already added this, does his patch resolve your
concerns?
> 2) Why is the number of clients that socket.listen() queues hard-coded
> to 5? this should be an option.
Frankly I can't imagine why anyone would care. 5 is supposed to be a
reasonable and recommended maximum. But it's an option now :-)
> 3) If writing to a connection and closing a connection are thread safe
> then writing threaded servers is trivial. I'll try to write some patches
> that don't slow down the default non-threaded code tommorow. Again,
> rewriting my code from scratch as event driven is a waste of a time - I
> might do it someday, but I want working code now.
OK, I already responded to this in a later email, but I have 2 more things
to add:
* If your server is multithreaded, it will be *significantly* slower
than if it is not. This is a well-documented fact even for servers
in C, and context switching + resource contention on the main
interpreter thread is going to kill you well before you get into
problems with contention for individual write locks.
* _That is okay_. Don't start worrying too much about the performance
of Twisted's threading until you've got some significant benchmarking
problem; and when you discover that threading is slow, you can always
optimize by making it asynchronous instead :) Chances are, however,
that your app can afford the speed hit if it's at all a typical server.
* There are some interesting ideas in this half/sync half/async pattern
that may be useful for your app, available at:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/PLoP-95.pdf
> 4) I'll submit a working twisted.internet.ssl after I do (3).
See that this has already been done. Impressive turnaround time ;)
> 5) More docstrings!
As always.
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