It's been rumoured that Al Snell said:
>
> No way - RPC is far more lightweight than CORBA.
I am an rpc novice ... so excuse me, but what about the overhead of
having to contact 3 or 4 different servers, e.g. portmapper, statd,
rpciod, and all that? My impression was that this wasn't
a particularly speedy operation.
By comparison, in 1997, I measured 2-8 milliseconds per corba call
(latency), over a 10base2 (coax cable) ethernet, betwen a 486 and
a pentium-133, using crappy ne2000 ethernet cards.
See http://www.linas.org/linux/corba.html for details.
This aint great performance, but it aint terribly slow; acceptible,
I'd say, for lightweight duty. And I beleive that rougly similar
figures would accrue to http/apache. I find it hard to beleive that
rpc would do a whole lot better.
--linas
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