Re: CORBA performance - why CORBA

[Bart Schuller <schuller+gnome lunatech com>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:53:23PM -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On 3 Dec 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >   b) to avoid round trips; I'd like for example a "set key to value"
> >      operation to be oneway (yeah I could just put oneway
> >      on all existing methods, for this).
> 
>         Quite; oneway is great.

I don't understand why I keep hearing this, when CORBA itself doesn't
guarantee message delivery for oneway calls. Sure, Orbit may give that
guarantee (how can it?), but ignoring this is precisely the kind of
transparency that is actually a dangerous simplification.

-- 
Bart.