[omniORB] Paper mentioning problems with omniORBpy and threading

Harri Pasanen harri.pasanen at trema.com
Mon Jul 28 08:59:34 BST 2003


On Friday 25 July 2003 17:29, Duncan Grisby wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July, Jon Dyte wrote:
> > this paper mentions problems with omniORBpy, threading &
> > performance. It's a little vague on the details.
> > Does anyone have any more info on the issues, and/or know if
> > they have been covered on the list.
> >
> > http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0307/0307001.pdf
>
> I have no idea what they are talking about.
>

I read the paper, and I guess Python/omniORBpy related was mostly 
about two things: 1. complaints that Python's global interpreter 
lock somewhat hinders scalability on SMP machines, and 2. the 
additional memory overhead of Python.

Harri



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