Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:44:01PM -0600, Mike Castle wrote: > Then again, isn't Jim some how involved in ORBit and GNOME? Or just a big > supporter? :-> Jim works on XFree86 (among other things). So yes, he is indeed *somehow* involved in GNOME ;-) Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:10:24AM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote: > There are many other optimizations that one can make the transport faster > that ORBit doesn't implement. For example, you could mmap (shared) data > buffers between the two processes communicating (of course, you still need > to

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Chris Lattner
>> There is a large perception of CORBA being slow, but for the most part >> it is unjustified. > Well, I've measured using function calls through ORBit is 300 times > slower than using dynamic loading. > ... > Which gives me the dl is about 333 times faster than ORBit. You leave so many

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Chris Lattner
There is a large perception of CORBA being slow, but for the most part it is unjustified. Well, I've measured using function calls through ORBit is 300 times slower than using dynamic loading. ... Which gives me the dl is about 333 times faster than ORBit. You leave so many details

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:10:24AM -0600, Chris Lattner wrote: There are many other optimizations that one can make the transport faster that ORBit doesn't implement. For example, you could mmap (shared) data buffers between the two processes communicating (of course, you still need to wake

Re: ORBit speed measure

2000-12-14 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:44:01PM -0600, Mike Castle wrote: Then again, isn't Jim some how involved in ORBit and GNOME? Or just a big supporter? :- Jim works on XFree86 (among other things). So yes, he is indeed *somehow* involved in GNOME ;-) Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and