Re: GNOME & KOM/OP

[Miles Egan <cullen best com>]

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> Well, the underlying mechanism for all of this is CORBA, so the ORBit people
> can probably answer authoritatively.  Elliot seems to think that he can do
> CORBA calls in the same address space without mashalling the parameters, which
> would let you get pretty close to the same speed as shared libraries.  I'll
> let someone else answer this one further.

I know nothing about CORBA, but this is certainly the case in COM.  The
only real overhead incurred in accessing an in-process COM object is the
overhead of the single function call required to obtain the interface
you're after.  All subsequent calls on the interface are as fast as a
normal virtual function call. 

Miles