From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 11 18:53:48 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:53:48 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: XFree86 Technical Conference needs *you*
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On Wednesday 11 July 2001 10:57 am, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > - What are the bells and whistles of xmlrpcd as compared to DCOP?
>
> DCOP is a binary protocol. Therefore, the marshalling / unmarshalling
> is considerably faster than with XML-RPC. However, being binary (and
> based on QObject), this means that both dcopping entities need to be
> written in C++.

This is not completely true. The dcop protocol is independant from C++ or 
QObject. There is in fact a dcop client available written in C and I got 
bugreports from someone who made DCOP calls from Python.

> By the way: kdeinit always starts kxmlrpcd. I'd guess this is one of
> the least used programs inside KDE, despite the fact that it run's
> everywhere :-)

Yes, I think that is wrong.

Cheers,
Waldo
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