Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-core mmclouglin

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ERDI Gergo wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> > On the other hand, having deep call stacks on simple things (worse,
> > every call)before the data can be got back/handed over to the OS is
> > only getting worse over time.
> 
> This is mostly an implementation detail, and after you optimize that, the
> minimum number of call layers needed becomes an OS issue.
> 

No, its an architectural issue that gets blamed on implemnatation by
*everybody* involved in pretty much whichever protocol you are talking
about. As a perspective consider that X is not considered a particluarily
nice example aswell.

> -- 
>    .--= ULLA! =---------------------.   `We are not here to give users what
>    \     http://cactus.rulez.org     \   they want'  -- RMS, at GUADEC 2001
>     `---= cactus cactus rulez org =---'
> If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
> 

	Sander

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