[omniORB] Can't run OmniPy out of the box? (_omniidl module problem)

[Serguei Kolos]

Hi Duncan

Could you comment please on performance comparison between omniORB 4.0.7
and omniORB 4.1.0. Are there any improvements or worsening?

Cheers,
Sergei

Duncan Grisby wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November, "Keeping, Benjamin" wrote:
>
>   
>> To answer your question, I want to use both Python and C++ eventually,
>> but my initial focus is Python.
>>
>> Thanks, I may try what you suggest - in the meantime though I have
>> started looking at ICE, and found it rather easier to get started
>> with. This is despite years of experience using omniORB from C++.
>>
>> What would your comments be on the comparison of the two?
>>     
>
> I haven't looked at Ice much, and I've certainly never used it for a
> real project. For C++, Ice definitely has a much nicer language mapping
> since it uses standard C++. I don't think it makes a huge amount of
> difference for Python, since the CORBA Python mapping is pretty simple.
>
> For some of the things I use Python and CORBA with, the lack of
> something like the Any type would be a real problem with ICE. Anys fit
> really well with Python's dynamic typing.
>
> Despite ZeroC's claims about performance, the last time I did any
> performance measurements, omniORB was significantly faster than Ice for
> most operations:
>
>   http://groups.google.com/group/comp.object.corba/browse_thread/thread/1106eb2c0ae4bc41/cc3468b0c5e1ef8e
>
> Since that post, omniORB has gained some more intelligent string
> marshalling code, so in plenty of cases the string performance should
> beat Ice now. Of course, Ice may have got faster since then too.
>
> And Ice isn't a standard, of course, which may or may not matter to you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Duncan.
>
>