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A long time ago, I wrote a library that could marshal a running Ruby program over a socket to another VM. It seemed like a cool idea at the time, but I never f
by cout 3y ago
A long time ago, I wrote a library that could marshal a running Ruby program over a socket to another VM. It seemed like a cool idea at the time, but I never found a good use for it. Turns out it's simpler to send the source code over the wire instead.
- 7373737373 3y agoStackless Python can do it as well, very cool: https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/2.7-slp/library/stackless/pickling.html https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/2.7-slp/library/stackles... Eve Online uses (used?) it to move game server instances to more powerful hardware when more players joined one region than a smaller hardware server could handle.