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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: aRts as KDE2.0 audio server
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-09-12 10:45:20
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Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> 
> Now to the rational reasons, why not using CORBA:
> 
> - you may think it is slower (in CPU sense)
> 
>   as it is NOT used for signal transmission, there is no reason while a
>   CORBA based audio server should be slower than a non CORBA based
> 
> - you may think its more complicated
> 
>   as you can write wrapper libs for CORBA just as for esd internals, I see
>   no reason why this should be the case
> 
> - you may think it uses more memory
> 
>   I agree here - there have been no benchmarkings on that yet, but before
>   you start doing them, I'd like to have aRts running with tinymico (that
>   is with ministl)
> 
I think, it's more unsecure. You've mentioned that aRts is going to be
run
as root. Can you asure CORBA is secure enough not to let anyone play on
my computer who wants to?

Greetings, Stephan

> So I personally can't recognize any valid reasons why you wouldn't want to
> use CORBA. Sure - aRts is a lot more complex than esd - but thats not due
> to CORBA, but since a multimedia framework *IS* more compilcated to achieve
> than a simple program which mixes some data in a fixed manner - in fact, I
> think I could write the latter in a week and it wouldn't be worse than esd,
> while the former took me two years (well, not uninterrupted work, to be fair)
> and isn't finished yet.


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