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In article <umisef.51.30B0765F@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au>,
umisef@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (Bernd MEYER - Bernie) wrote:

> In article <ACD5092596684DB87@jake-6f.ip.realtime.net> hplus@bga.com
(Jon Watte) writes:
> >This is not the kind of messaging Be times. Messages are addressed packets
> >of structured data. You create a message, you add typed, named, parameters
> >(data) to it, you send the message to one of many receivers, the receipient
> >receives and decodes the message.
> 
> Well, that isn't all that different from sending stuff into a pipe

Yes it is.

> I might try sending a sructure through that pipe, instead of having
> the printf and scanf functions there. It should speed things up 
> tremendously.

Be messages are not just structures, they are associative dictionaries
which you can query for information of a certain type. If you just
send a C struct through a pipe you have to know what it is you are
receiving. A BMessage can be asked what it contains. Data is tagged
by keyword and type.

   --- james mccartney    james@astro.as.utexas.edu