[Qt5-feedback] Fast IPC for Qt5?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Monday, 13 de June de 2011, às 15:42:37, Ville M. Vainio escreveu:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM,  <arvid.picciani at nokia.com> wrote:
> >> Doing high performance IPC has so far required a roll-your-own
> >> approach [...]
> >> Perhaps Qt could provide such a thing as a module?
> > 
> > Why would it? What's wrong with using the non qt solutions out there?
> 
> Well, Qt (in the extended sense of the word) already provides Service
> Framework. It also provides "blessed" DBUS binding. So such things are
> not entirely out of scope.

D-Bus also moves out as an add-on module.

> My preferred approach would be to rewrite Service Framework to use a
> low latency solution. This was suggested before and shot down, but
> that transpired before feb 11 and open governance so some things may
> be different now.

SFW can have more than one backend, that's fine.

In the post-Feb 11 world, we will focus more on Linux than before, meaning we 
don't need an abstraction layer to an abstraction layer.

> > Also i know at least 5 solutions _with_ Qt, existing built from the
> > community. Maybe it makes more sense to raise awareness for such
> > community projects.
> 
> Agreed. I'm not particularly interested in bloating Qt - but pointing
> at a fast way to do IPC as a "Qt endorsed" solution might be a good
> idea.

It will be as Qt-endorsed as anything else by being a Qt Addon.

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