[openbeos] Re: Preferences/File Help

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:41:12 +0100 (MET)

> > A server??? Better is a library, no?
> Seriously, what is the obsession with servers? IPC can be really 
> slow. 
> If you can do it locally, why not? Servers also eat up unnecessary 
> RAM 
> and processing power. There's a reason there are no device or 
> translation servers, you know.

Hey Nathan, exactly my opinion :-)
Servers can have advantages, but I really can't see any advantage in a 
pref server over a library which has that functionality.

Kit != server. Personally, I would only go the server way, if the 
library way would have some disadvantages.

Adios...
   Axel.



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