RE: panel widget as library?

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliot Lee [mailto:sopwith@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 11:42 AM
> To: Miguel de Icaza
> Subject: Re: panel widget as library?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > > >Is there any plans to make a shared memory standard 
> inter orb protocol? It
> > > >would speed corba up to the point where it can be much 
> more usefull.
> > > 
> > > On what grounds do you base your speedup assertion?
> > 
> > Intuition would tell me "transfering large ammounts of data".  Say,
> > transfering large sets of data.  Large as in 20 megs per second.
> 
> If you are doing this, you should use multithreading or 
> something in the
> same address space.
> 
> The typical CORBA request sends comparatively little data.
> 
> The main problem with implementing a shared memory transport is the
> complexity involved. You have to have at least one shared 
> memory segment
> for each client you connect to, you have worry about security 
> (how do you
> allow connections between processes running as different 
> users?), you have


Well, you can use IIOP right now between users. So it dosnt seem like IIOP
wories about it. :)


> to worry about signalling the other end through another 
> mechanism that the
> data is in the shm segment waiting to be processed, etc. etc.
> 
> -- Elliot
> Who me? I just wander from room to room.
> 
> 
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