[Bf-committers] Blender Network Rendering in Erlang

[Emmanuel Stone]

I can testify that C interface to Erlang is functional. We use it
where I work (Demonware).

Erlang is a good choice for any sort of distributed multi-server
system, and sounds like a good choice for this.

-Emmanuel


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Nicholas Amorim
<nicholas at montrealdevelopment.com> wrote:
> Erlang has FFI (Foreign Function Interface).that allows to perform direct
> calls of external C functions. I don't see it as part of default OTP - yet,
> at least.
>
> http://muvara.org/crs4/erlang/ffi/
>
> Erlang itself provides the EI library to interfacing C with Erlang too:
> http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erl_interface/part_ei_frame.html
>
> I'm currently inclined to write some glue code between Erlang and C than
> drop down to shell and execute blender as a separate program.
>
> I really thinks that Erlang powers to create nodes on differentes machines
> can be a power factor. I'm not sure if the overhead between converting C
> types to Erlang and back and forth would be a big overhead.
>
> But I would like to give a try (test both approaches that I described here,
> test them - I do prefer really using standard library than applying patch to
> stuff, anyway).
>
> So this is it. I'm willing to try anyway, if you think it's a good idea, I
> would start to dig into Blender's code (only saw it once) for render
> functions and so on.
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