Common Lisp bindings now part of ZeroMQ 2.0
Today Vitaly Mayatskikh announced the inclusion of his Common Lisp ZeroMQ bindings into the ZeroMQ 2.0 source tree. ZeroMQ 2.0 is a high-performance messaging system, which is great news if you are trying to build distributed systems in Common Lisp.
Previously, available Free Software alternatives for Common Lisp messaging included CL-XMPP (XMPP client only) and CL-RABBIT (Lispworks only).
Note that ZeroMQ 2.0, unlike version 1, no longer implements AMQP, due to performance reasons.
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Do you happen to know more about the trade-offs between XMPP and ZeroMQ?
ZeroMQ: serverless messaging, multicast, no persistent queues out of the box
XMPP: needs a server, but can work behind NAT firewalls using HTTP, no persistent queues out of the box
XMPP has horrible overhead, especially for binary blobs (needs base64 because it's based on XML).
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