10 Oct
2020
10 Oct
'20
11:55 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf
Of Paul Koning
Sent: 10 October 2020 21:51
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Third Release of Route20 User Mode DECnet Router
To be honest, I have never actually looked at PyDECnet! But I should again acknowledge
that you have provided me with invaluable help and insight.
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.
My principal aim was to make it portable to as many machines as possible. Not only from a
language point of view but also from a resources point of view. For both those reasons C
is indeed a better language. So, yes, I think my implementation is likely to work on a
wider range of machines. I have not written it to be particularly fast though, my
implementation is quite na?ve in many respects, because I wanted to keep it simple. I do
want to support more parts of DECnet, but time is the usual enemy here.
Regards
Rob