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A NEW DESIGN

Simplified Goals

• run internal clients just like existing shared object APIs do
• run external clients (in another process) as well

How to support external clients

We need:

• a method to share/move data efficiently, preferably zero-copy
• a method to communicate with each client efficiently

Solutions

• data sharing: shared memory
• communication: FIFO's (pipes)
• why not signals? too slow!