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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: shared memory [was: ESL benchmarks]
From:       pbrown () redhat ! com
Date:       1999-12-21 21:45:20
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Harri Porten wrote:

> Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > 
> > I've done some basic testing with this ESL approach (if you don't have read
> > about it yet, there is a document at http://homepage.sime.com/esl.html ).
> 
> Just a thought: wouldn't your approach make it possible to take
> advantage of shared memory ? IIRC the last person investigating shared
> memory (Preston?) said that processes would need to have a common
> ancestor for it to work/be portable. Sharing common resources (e.g. an
> icon cache) might be a good thing !

This is 100% correct.  And then you could talk to this thing via DCOP or
something.

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  Preston Brown                                    Systems Engineer
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat, Inc. 

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