When you say "persistent connections", I think DBI. I know both from experimentation and documentation that establishing a connection to a database is expensive. DBI isn't involved in this project though (despite the database metaphor), so I guess what I need to know is how to do what DBI is doing.

Forgive my ignorance, but just what does "persistent connection" mean in this context? How do I get one?

You might want to have a look at POE.

Thanks for the tip. It looks daunting.

I guess I need to bone up on the fundamentals of sockets programming first. Judging from the responses so far, they're the answer. Since I've never had to solve this problem before, I wasn't sure if that was the right place to look, or if there was something else I should be checking out too.

In reply to Re^2: Rapid inter-machine communication on internal network by Anonymous Monk
in thread Rapid inter-machine communication on internal network by Anonymous Monk

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