[omniORB] Python Embedded

[Leandro Fanzone]

Thank you for your quick answer.

Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> Given that you can write a server in python, why do you need to embed 
> that into a C++ server framework? How about putting the functionality 
> you need scripted into a separate server? 


Because I think it would be faster if I can get rid of CORBA 
marshalling/interprocess communication between the main process and its 
script. Sure there's marshalling in the embedding process, but I guess 
it will be lighter as it's just one way. Another reason is that as the 
scriptable servers are more than one, each script I embed is one less 
process running, id est, less resources usage.

> If you are doing some kind of dynamically scripted server, how about 
> doing that entirely in python? 


Do you mean to implement all the server in Python, the scriptable 
portion and the static one? On the one hand, the non-scriptable portion 
could be very complex, and I am not confident enough with Python to 
write it all using that language. Also that would imply to rewrite lots 
of already written C++ code in Python, of course. On the other, this is 
a real time system, I can't afford to change the speed of compiled C++ 
against Python, as I don't know how fast it would be.

>                  - Thomas 

Leandro.