[aplusdev] Win port revisited (Cross Platform GUI)

[stevan apter]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefano Lanzavecchia" <stf at apl.it>
To: <aplusdev at d13.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:20 AM
Subject: RE: [aplusdev] Win port revisited (Cross Platform GUI)


> > > 6. Write and XML-RPC client and server for A+ and 
> > communicate with GUI 
> > > client written in Python, Java, VB, etc. 
> > 
> > That is more or less the approach that K will reportedly take 
> > with its 
> > next version (dubbed K4; they are skipping 3 for some 
> > reason). 
> 
> Except that, as far as I know, communication is not done through
> XML-RPC, which isn't expressive enough and it's too verbose most of the
> time, but via binary encoding of messages. And the authors admit that
> the performance is nowhere near that of K's native GUI. At least, they
> admitted that during development. Maybe there have been major
> breakthroughs since then. 

not a day goes by without one.  

performance is acceptable, but nowhere near that of the native k
gui or A+.  swing and ipc are each sluggish compared with k.

k4 should be fast enough (and have the right datastructures) to
implement a gui engine from the ground up.  no java, no c++; just
pure k.  

we have no plans to follow this path, but if there were world 
enough and time ...

> I missed the conference...


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