On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Michael Haberler <mai...@mah.priv.at> wrote:
> Am 25.02.2013 um 21:33 schrieb Tom Easterday:
>> 
>>> That said: what exactly is the tuning effort about? There are various ways 
>>> to access pins, and I think pretty much all of them would be orders of 
>>> magnitude faster than 'halcmd show pin x' ?
>> 
>> The tuning effort is that we are writing a GUI that talks to Linuxcnc over 
>> wifi and would like it to be as responsive as possible.   Currently we are 
>> using a simple web server 
>> (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Rockhopper_Web_Server).  What 
>> other way(s) would you suggest for getting/setting pins?
> 
> I'd think a webserver based on forking shell commmands and 'as responsive as 
> possible' is incompatible.

I forgot to mention the "as quick as possible for proof of concept with 
improvements to follow later " requirement.

> Yes, I follow the golden words of my thesis adviser, Prof. Vassiliy 
> Copyrovich Cleptomanov, the eminent Stalin-era reverse engineer, who said: 
> 
>   "First question to ask: has this problem already been solved elsewhere, and 
> if so, how?"


I may have to Copyrovich Cleptomanov that name.  I like it :-)

-Tom


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