Re: MIG->Corba (performance)

[Ognyan Kulev]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:11:19PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Of course, but any message passing only adds a constant overhead to a single
> message. Performance increase can also be achieved by adding new interfaces,
> which remove the need to send several messages (by replacing them with a
> single message). I think this is what is planned for fork. Faster computers
> make the constant overhead for single messages negligible.

One beautiful solution will be batching many IPC requests in one context
switch, e.g. (open,read,close).  No concrete idea and no clear vision how it
could be done (even not implemented, but designed).  Of course this is not
the right time to think about it for Hurd, but perhaps in the future...

PS  Disussions about CORBA & Hurd always inspire me :-))))  Merging the
efforts with GNOME project will be A Good Thing (GConf, ...) - I see it as
the most progressive GNU project (Unix sucks, but we'll fix it:-))).

-- 
Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""