[openbeos] Re: Preferences/File Help

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:22:04 -0600 (CST)

> >I have even thought about a server, where you send
> >it a BMessage, and it sends back a BMessage that contains a string 
> > which is
> >an XML representation of the BMessage. :-)
> 
> 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.
-Nathan

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