Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:30:42 -0500 (EST) | From | Elliot Lee <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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On 14 Dec 2000, Michael Livshin wrote:
> this might be because the Bell Labs folks don't like RPC in general > when network latencies become involved? I'm guessing. > > 'cause CORBA is still pretty much objectified RPC, as far as I know. > I don't think you want to abstract the network out just like that when > dealing with kernels.
OK, since everyone seems to want to argue about this on orbit-list for some reason, my $0.02: CORBA/IIOP is saner than SunRPC in a lot of ways, and it's not too horribly more complicated to implement a barebones ORB than a barebones SunRPC impl.
Comments about CORBA being too slow are nonsense - it's just that a few crackheads have tried to stick ORBit in the kernel as a global IPC mechanism, which it really is not suitable for. CORBA has its place, and a GIOP mapping to a kernel-friendly IPC mechanism (instead of TCP/IP) would certainly make it more useful in the kernel, but generic mechanisms such as CORBA cannot by definition be as fast as IPC mechanisms optimized for a specific task.
People like Al Viro, who haven't written GNOME programs of any size and certainly don't have mounds of in-depth knowledge of it, should probably shut up about about its API & design. :)
TTFN, -- Elliot No new ideas for my .sig, and Alan told me my old one was an urban myth, so just ignore this.
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