From kde-devel Wed Jun 16 16:28:08 1999 From: Kurt Granroth Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:28:08 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: [FW: Re: Different corba implementations] X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92954951624292 Phil Mesnier wrote: > First, the size issue, I did some poking around and yes, ACE is > on the order of 4 megs, TAO on the order of 3.5 megs. This is > larger than MICO, but not by orders of magnitude. I have seen > that using the egcs compiler on solaris make a product that _IS_ > an order of magnitude larger, but that is because it adds all the > object files, symbol tables and whatever else is need for debugging. > Certainly not what is needed for a shipping product. Hmm.. okay, I'll admit to this: my ACE/TAO experience was on a Solaris box and my MICO experience is on Linux. I've noticed that Linux libraries and executables are significantly smaller than the Solaris equivalent so I wasn't really comparing apples to apples, there. > Also Kurt, your comment about Iridium is not entirely correct. > Iridium uses Orbix as its orb, as Iridium predates TAO by a number > of years. Iridium uses ACE extensively. Whoops! I sometimes screw up ACE and TAO and use one where I mean the other. Now I'm still thinking that they use TAO somewhere in Iridium (I could *swear* that I was talking with an engineer that was doing just that in an Iridium gateway).. but you're right about it not being "the" orb. > -- > Phil Mesnier > Sr. Software Engineer, http://www.ociweb.com > Object Computing, Inc. +01.314.579.0066 Well, this explains why you know a bit about ACE/TAO. Object Computing, Inc conducted the CORBA class that I took awhile back. It was based heavily on TAO. :-) -- Kurt Granroth | granroth@kde.org KDE Developer/Evangelist | http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth KDE -- Putting a Friendly Face on Linux