[omniORB] g3 and gif files

[Thor Åge Eldby]

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Sai-Lai Lo wrote:
> Axel,
> 
> I think it is a myth that CORBA is by nature inefficent in handling bulk
> data. One of the objective of the omniORB2 design is to squash this myth.
> 
> omniORB2 is very efficent in shipping sequence of integer types. There is
> next to no marshalling or buffering overhead. So in Andrew's case, he can
> easly create an interface with a single sendData method with a single in
> argument of type sequence<octet>.

While testing omniORB and comparing to other ORB's I tried this by using 1MB
sized sequence<octet> and on two hosts with omniORB2.4?/Linux 2.0.36/Pentium II
300Mhz. I was capable of achiving aprox. 6MB per second on a 100Mbps lan. While
this is not optimal it is indeed good enough for most usage.

The largest problem I see with send very large binaries over CORBA is that I do
not how far I have gotten in my transmission (very useful over slow wan). Is
there a way to detect this? It is to my knowledge not mentioned in the CORBA
documents.

Have a nice day
ThorÅge
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