Re: GNOME & KOM/OP

[Dick Porter <dick cymru net>]

On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 01:45:38PM -0700, Miles Egan wrote:
> 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. 

Note that these shared-address-space objects basically _are_ shared library
objects:-)

> 
> Miles
> 

- Dick