Hello Matt, On Tuesday 15 March 2005 16:23, Matt Massie wrote: > i also have another question for you guys. > > how much do you love/hate java? how would you feel about having gmetad > written in java? > > i only ask because i'm playing around with jrobin > (http://www.jrobin.org/) and it has some features that rrdtool does not > which we really need. for example... in-memory rrds (sync to disk > whenever you like).. dynamically altering rrd data sources/archives... > databases are cross-platform.
IMO it's not a good idea. You might gain some performance by in memory rrds at the price to lose a lot of performance in gmetad itself. Additionally you might introduce complications like dependencies on particular JRE versions, the need to have them installed and/or delivered together with gmetad. But my main concern is performance, e.g. I don't see how parsing/scanning the XML trees in java should be faster than in C. Regards, Erich
