[cap-talk] OO interoperation via OCap, presentation level issues

[John Carlson]

On May 20, 2008, at 10:38 PM, James A. Donald wrote:

> David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
>> The issues are:
>>
>> a) when asynchronous messaging is used, how do you address the  
>> problem
>>    of potential unbounded buffer consumption, while still obtaining
>>    reliable forward progress?
>
> Relatively easy, if one redefines the problem as setting limits to
> buffer consumption, while ensuring that processes make forward  
> progress
> at an acceptable rate *or* else fail gracefully.

Worrying about asynchronous buffer consumption is a good thing.  I  
just wrote a program
where you can place a lot of colored boxes on the screen and drag them
around the screen.  It consumes a LOT of bandwidth.  I may have to  
change
my program to send deltas for the selection, instead of sending  
absolute coordinates.
Another thing I might do is resort to non-ascii data.

John