Re: speed daemons
Re: speed daemons
- Subject: Re: speed daemons
- From: "Todd Heberlein" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:37:05 -0700
- Organization: Net Squared, Inc.
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From: Chilton Webb <email@hidden>
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So I wonder, would using an OOP language like Obj-C for
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this be detrimental at all to performance,
Message passing in Obj-C and virtual methods in C++ do introduce some
overhead; however, for the most part this usually isn't a significant
issue for most code. I suspect skill and experience with a given
language plays a much greater role in both development time and
performance than one C variant vs. another.
If the code is going to be running on a server, there is at least one
major advantage to sticking with ANSI C - portability. If you use Obj-C
(including Apple's Obj-C runtime environment), and especially if you use
any of Apple's class libraries, you are pretty much stuck with MacOS X
on PowerPC. If your server run fine in ANSI C socket, you have the
additional advantage of being able to move it to Darwin/Intel, Linux,
Solaris, or even Windows.
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Second question, can an app written in Cocoa be launched via the
shell?
% open MyProgram.app
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Via a telnet session?
If you are thinking about logging into the server, running an
application on the server, and doing a remote display back to the client
machine, no. This feature used to be there, and may be again in the
future. But for now, no.
Todd