Re: [orca-list] Draft Proposed Two-Year Roadmap

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

I don't think that it's possible to decide whether to partly rewrite Orca 
in C/C++ until some performance analysis is done, since we need to know 
whether or not it would significantly speed things up.  There are a lot of 
factors which can affect performance aside from the programming language. 
Ie; do some of Orca's algorithms take a long time to run?  If so, is this 
because it, for instance, repeatedly calls atk code that winds up doing 
some complex calculation on certain toolkits / in certain cases?  Are 
there changes to at-spi's ipc or api that could be made to simplify the 
work that Orca needs to do?  So this debate about whether to use C++ could 
be mostly moot in the end, or, if some of the significant performance 
issues are caused by things other than what I mentioned and we have an 
estimate as to how much using C/C++ could improve performance, then that 
will inform the discussion.

-Mike G-