From: Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 14:19:21 +0100
Message-ID: <19981114141921.C546@usa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811131331180.9308-100000@thelab.hub.org>
References: <199811131719.BAA26341@public.bta.net.cn>
<Pine.BSF.4.05.9811131331180.9308-100000@thelab.hub.org>
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 01:39:17PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > GNOME started with Mico. Mico, apparently, makes use of C++ templates,
> > which caused the compiler they were using to generate bloated, wallowing
> > code.
>
> Is that still accurate today?
I think so, yes.
> > GNOME then adopted ORBit, which has two wins: it's in C, and (this is
> > the biggy) it has provisions to shortcut parameter marshalling,
>
> So...implement an OO 'environment' with a non-OO language? :)
>
> My experience is that for pretty much every pro, there is a
> con...what are we losing with ORBit that we'd have with mico? Short
> and/or long term? mico is reputed to be Corba 2.2 compliant..orbit?
In the short term we lose lots of functions with ORBit. In the long run
however we win performance.
Michael
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