> Beware, CORBA marshaling/unmarshaling can be similarly deadly, especially if > you are passing Any's and have to marshal complex type codes. But if you > are just sending arrays of octets, or strings of chars, then CORBA > marshal/unmarshal will be quite fast.
Sure, any is no good at all. But I guess having a well-defined struct makes send corba the data comparably packed and (give or take endianess) directly in a representation close to what the result will look like. In contrast to XML, that wraps _everything_ in a plethora of bytes just for the fun of it... > Of course, something will have to convert that array to meaningful data > *somewhere*! You can't really eliminate software complexity, you can only > move it around. (not original, I'm quoting Chris Stone, founder of the OMG. > Also from Chris Stone - "I finally came up with a good definition for > middleware. Middleware is the software nobody wants to pay for.") Also true - but you can make the matter of reinterpreting a bunch of bytes a mere cast (TCP/IP solution) or invoke a few thousand lines of code called XML-Parser. And on top of _that_ the XMLRPC itself. CORBA is certainly between these two, but on a scale of 5-20 times faster. Which might be the difference between a loaded but responsive server and a self-inflicted DDOS :) Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
