Re: [Libphidget-devel] Documentation?

[Vadim T. <vt...@fr...>]

According to Jack Strohm:
> On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 00:20, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> > > > Maybe it is so in C++ world. However, speaking for myself, I've spent last 7
> > > > years in Java and got eventually fed up with it for one simple reason: it's
> > > > BIG. OK, you can put together something in a day that you'd spend a month
> > > > doing in C++ (collections, threading, etc.), fine, but the weight of the
> > > > resulting code is just overwhelming.
> > > 
> > > when you say weight, what do you mean?
> > 
> > In particular, memory footprint. Speed is not encouraging, either. Maybe
> > it's just me with my tendency to write generic code and not optimize it, I
> > don't know.
> 
> memory . . . you mean it takes more than 512 megs to run?  I figure
> anything under 512 megs is pretty light  ;-)

40-60M for a process that is supposed to be "just one of the daemons" is way
too much...

> > > > And the real world applications of phidgets will most probably be MT.
> > > 
> > > why do they need to be MT?  
> > 
> > 'cause it's simpler this way.
> 
> I'd disagree about MT being simpler.  Maybe the design might be simpler,
> but the implementation of the design can have a lot of snafu's

I hope I'm done and over with snafu's. Just give me a little more time, I'll
port it back ;)

--vt