Re: On GIMP and CORBA

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

>> Which brings to another point: mass data transfer. Extensions,
>> especially filter plug-ins, require the moving of lots of image
>> data back and forth. Currently, this is relatively fast, because
>> shmem is used. Although CORBA by default supplies only a
>> socket-based communication medium, I think we can either use shmem
>> by hand, or (preferably) write a shmem-based GIOP implementation
>> for ORBit.

Manish> Ah, ok, this addresses one of my previous concerns, at least
Manish> somewhat.

FYI, a standard technique for dealing with large data is to use CORBA
to negotiate a separate high-volume communications channel.  This gets
you the benefits of CORBA where it matters the most, and high
performance where that matters the most.

Tom