Re: [E-devel] Re: Dbus and Ecore

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:40:45 +0000 Christopher Wagner <cw...@ex...>
babbled:

> I hope you don't mind me asking about this, I'm not much of a programmer
> so I don't really know much about IPC. I did do a little reading about
> dbus a while back, and what I thought I understood is that there are two
> parts of dbus: the dbus protocol, and the dbus daemon. I think that two
> apps can use the dbus protocol without involving the daemon and thereby
> incurring extra overhead. The main purpose of the daemon seems to be for
> sending a message to multiple programs.
> 
> So here's my question: assuming that the above is correct, how does dbus
> compare to e-ipc if you aren't involving the dbus daemon?

roughly equivalent. e_ipc + eet together can transfer data structs between
applications regardless of endianess, location, system, os, etc. its already
there and working.

> Thanks for all of the awesome work you do,
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
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