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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