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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers