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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
To: sabre@nondot.org (Chris Lattner)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:11:42 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Don't worry about kORBit.  Like most open source projects, it will simply
> die out after a while, because people don't find it interesting and there
> is really no place for it.  If it becomes useful, mature, and refined,
> however, it could be a very powerful tool for a large class of problems
> (like moving code OUT of the kernel).

I do have one sensible question. Given that corba is while flexible a 
relatively expensive encoding system, wouldn't it be better to keep corba
out of kernel space and talk something which is a simple and cleaner encoding

Alan

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