Chris,

Using zmq is a great fit for high-speed notifications such as this. Have
you seen the pull request to integrate zmq directly into bitcoind, so that
you don't even need -blocknotify?

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2415

If not: we could use some testing there!

Wladimir



On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Chris Double <chris.double@double.co.nz>wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Rune Kjær Svendsen
> <runesvend@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not quite so how to go about this.
>
> As others have said, queuing outside of bitcoind is a better approach.
> I use zeromq for this situation. blocknotify runs a program which uses
> zeromq's pub/sub to queue and the application subscribes to this to
> get notified of the data.
>
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