romp

ROMP is the Ruby Object Message Proxy. It is sort of like drb (distributed Ruby) in that it allows a Ruby client program to transparently talk to an object that is sitting on a server. Its features include:

• Up to 40000 messages per second
• Allows more than one object to reside on the server; supports a sort for naming service for retriving references to objects.
• Fully thread-safe, provided the object sitting on the server is thread-safe.
• Supports oneway calls, so the client does not have to block waiting for a response from the server.
• Allows exceptions to be propogated from server to client; massages the backtrace to make debugging easier.

NEWS (Feb. 21, 2002) - The author of drb has done some performance tests comparing ROMP and drb. It looks like drb is a LOT faster than it used to be (but still not as fast as ROMP). You can see the results here:

http://www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/RWiki/?cmd=view;name=ROMP%3A%3A%C2%AE%C5%D9%C8%E6%B3%D3 (Japanese)