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 David Brownell wrote: > Steinar Bang wrote: > > > > >>>>> "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@i...>: > > > > > XML (and, say, XML-RPC) is much lighter-weight than CORBA > > > > Hm... that really depends on your definition of "lighter-weight"... > > Indeed. The first implementation of IIOP was a little engine > I wrote, which I seem to recall compiled to about 5Kb on an x86. > > That's client and server side, both -- all you needed to interop > with another IIOP engine (a.k.a ORB). And yes, it was faster > than any commercial product I remember hearing about, not just > smaller than them. I remember noticing when I hit the sweet spot > to get have the core engine stay inside that little cache on the > 486 CPU ... there's nothing like such an observation for an XML > package. > > I don't recall seeing an XML parser that small, much less one Remember Jeremie's Javascript XML parser (XParse) - it was about 5K! [Sorry - I just couldn't resist :) ] Tom > that also embedded the networking support. On the other hand, > CORBA vendors also add their own share of glop to the mix, so > things tend to even out. > > - Dave > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS. 
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