[sugar] more on sugar performance

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 21:24 +0800, Ivan Krsti? wrote:
> Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > This way perhaps we would know about some processor
> > intensive spots that should be optimized (python-dbus, perhaps?)
> 
> At the risk of Blizzard shooting me, I should point out that I'm really
> not at all convinced that D-BUS is the bus we should use. Its design and
> performance characteristics make it suitable for use on general
> desktops, but I can't help but feel we can do better for our use case.

You're not seriously suggesting we write our own general purpose IPC
system, are you?  That's complete madness.  If not, what other
alternatives do you see as viable?

dan

> 
> This is (largely) moot for revision1 of the software, but is something I
> want to look into more carefully.
>