Re: CF: Documentation - client/server protocol

["Ivan Tkatchev" <ivantk@hotmail.com>]

>> 
>>  I'd say that Tcl/Tk is your best bet for a portable client.
>> 
>> 
>> -Kris
>> 
>
>Sadly I must disagree.  That was the first language I tried, even to 
>the point of hacking together a loadable XPM photo module.  The 
>performance on my SPARC IPX was tolerable, but the performance under 
>NT3.5.1 on a P100 (with my ported XPM photo module) was clearly 
>intolerable.  I'd like to (again) villify libXpm (pseudo ported), but 
>performance still lacked after the images were cached.  If NT 
>couldn't handle it, I'd hate to see what W95 would do.

Maybe it'd be worth it to try using Tix, which supports Xpm images.

>
>I have been considering proposing Tcl as the archetype scripting 
>language although that may be overkill.
>

I don't know. Tcl is a pretty bad language, IMO.


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