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[Jarl van Katwijk]

Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> > We don't have to choose one or the other for everything.  There's nothing
> > wrong with:
> >
> >   Local: CORBA
> >     (UIL <--> DL <--> BL <--> PL)
> >
> >   Remote: SOAP or Fipa
> >     (BL <--> BL or DL <--> DL)
> >
> > Or is there?
> 
> If CORBA becomes only for local use, then why not use something like
> SysV IPC (shm, messages, ...) which is much faster.
> 

Because corba offers that we are able to create the layers in any
language and hosting hardware. Good corba implementations use shm e.a.
for it's ipc.

jarl