Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Mridul Jain
hi, > Please take my comments lightly, they are meant to > be humorous to > an extent. [no flames intended] Hey things are cool!!It's just a useful discussion.:-) > So, you're saying that a well optimized ORB can be > just as good as MIG. > That raises two other questions: > 1) Is CORBA goin

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Brian May
> "Joshua" == Joshua Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joshua> PERL might be a good choice for the RCS-translator that Joshua> I'd like to write Not to mention other languages that we haven't even mentioned here. eg. C++, Ada, etc (the list goes on). I think for The Hurd to achi

Bug#85302: gnumach: doesn't work with huge disks

2001-02-08 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
Package: gnumach Version: N/A Severity: normal Hi, gnumach has trouble with large disks. It only sees my 45 GB disk as one having about 12 GB. It correctly identifies the CHS values as 5606/255/63, but the actual size calculation is wrong. storeinfo inherits the wrong size. Soemthing with the L

some info about IIOP etc

2001-02-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, here is some abstract document explaining IIOP etc. I found it helpful to understand the topic. If someone has additional useful material, please post a link. IIOP Specification: A Closer Look www.blackmagic.com/people/gabe/iiop.html -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debia

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:15:59PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > So, you're saying that a well optimized ORB can be just as good as MIG. > That raises two other questions: > 1) Is CORBA going to be as slow as MIG? > 2) Is MIG slow enough? Performance is not really the concern here, altho

Entropy (was: Re: MIG->Corba)

2001-02-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:05:30PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:15:59PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > > For instance, do you really need to write hurd servers in different languages? > > How useful/suitable would a server written in "perl" be? These are the kind >

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Joshua Rosen
Eray Ozkural (exa) writes: > For instance, do you really need to write hurd servers in different languages? > How useful/suitable would a server written in "perl" be? Whell, I, for one, would love to see RMS's original projection that "Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming lan

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:15:59PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > For instance, do you really need to write hurd servers in different languages? > How useful/suitable would a server written in "perl" be? These are the kind > of questions one should consider before writing a big amount of code

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
hi, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > CORBA is only a source level standard. It is not restricted to IIOP > or any other message passing protocol, the so to say "backend" > can be changed according to need. For example regular IPC on the same > machine can be done through the Mach message passing facilit

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Mridul Jain
hi, > CORBA is only a source level standard. It is not > restricted to IIOP > or any other message passing protocol, the so to say > "backend" > can be changed according to need. For example > regular IPC on the same > machine can be done through the Mach message passing > facilities, like > MIG

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Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Mridul Jain wrote: > > > > hi, > > As I was preparing to work on the topic - Corba > > replacement for MIG ; > > Make sure it doesn't turn out to yield a Java level performance. ;) > > That standard called Corba was not tailo

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Mridul Jain
hi, > > I can notice the messages as they are being sent > on this GNOME > > desktop. That would not make a good bet for a hurd > server. > > IMHO CORBA can be as fast as Mig, even faster. > yes I agree that IPC is faster than vanilla IIOP.But there are ways by which we can increase the perform

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Ognyan Kulev
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > That standard called Corba was not tailored for microkernel > message passing. > > I can notice the messages as they are being sent on this GNOME > desktop. That would not make a good bet for a hurd server. IMHO CORBA can be a

Re: MIG->Corba

2001-02-08 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
Mridul Jain wrote: > > hi, > As I was preparing to work on the topic - Corba > replacement for MIG ; Make sure it doesn't turn out to yield a Java level performance. ;) That standard called Corba was not tailored for microkernel message passing. I can notice the messages as they are being sent