10 Oct
2020
10 Oct
'20
10:50 p.m.
On Oct 10, 2020, at 5:11 AM, Rob Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
As some of you may be aware, I have been writing my own DECnet router. Since the last
formal release a few years ago I have added a few things, the details are here
https://github.com/rjarratt/Route20. These were all on the Dev branch, which I know a few
people have tried. I have been running the Dev branch for a long time myself, so I am sure
it is stable. All I have done really is make the current Dev branch ?official? by merging
it to the master branch.
I know Paul has been much more active than me lately on this front, so I am probably a
bit behind, but if anyone would like to take a look that would be great.
I'll have to look at your work, have not done that in a long time.
My 2 cents worth: we're aiming at different things. I set out to build a full DECnet
implementation in Python, with emphasis on supporting all the parts of the architecture in
a very straightforward way. Efficiency was very much a secondary consideration. As it
happens, the performance is not bad, adequate for a lot of purposes.
A C based implement such as you did is somewhat harder to write, but much more efficient.
For anyone who is running on a slow machine, or under heavy load, your work is likely to
be the right answer. Also, of course, if you want to run on a machine where Python is not
available or not efficient.
paul