Lightweight Communications and Marshalling (LCM)
LCM is a set of libraries and tools for message passing and data marshalling, targeted at real-time systems where high-bandwidth and low latency are critical. It provides a publish/subscribe message passing model and automatic marshalling/unmarshalling code generation with bindings for applications in a variety of programming languages.
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Features
- Low-latency inter-process communication
- Efficient broadcast mechanism using UDP Multicast
- Type-safe message marshalling
- User-friendly logging and playback
- No centralized "database" or "hub" -- peers communicate directly
- No daemons
- Few dependencies
Supported platforms and languages
- Platforms:
- GNU/Linux
- OS X
- Windows
- Any POSIX-1.2001 system (e.g., Cygwin, Solaris, BSD, etc.)
- Languages
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- Lua
- MATLAB
- Python
- Vala