Re: freeing CORBA arguments

[Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad ebi ac uk>]

> http://www.ois.com/technical/ORB_Performance_Enemies__Writing_Fast_IDL.pdf

Very interesting. One thing I doubt however: 

One of the slides says that

  typedef octet Data[3000000]; 
  interface Image { void to(in Data x); };

would transmit faster than

  struct Pixel { octet Red; octet Green; octet Blue; }; 
  typedef Pixel Data[1000000]; 
  interface Image { void to(in Data x); };

apart from the alignment issue (1 or perhaps 6 bytes per Pixel is wasted), I
don't think this is true. It might be true as far as the (de)marshalling code is
concerned, but the first solution must be (de)marshalled as well, so you
would probably incur the same cost, but this time hand-implemented. 

                                                                      Philip
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