Will GnuCash ever work for me?

Derek Neighbors derek@gnue.org
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:40:51 -0500 (CDT)


Rob,

> XML-RPC is slower than CORBA?  Wow.  From what I've heard of each, I'm
> suprised.  I was under the impression that XML-RPC was a *much*
> lighter weight protocol.

In our initial testing we found it to be MUCH lighter weight in overhead
most definitely.  So in shoving a dataset of say 100 records across it was
faster by far.

However when you started talking 1000 records or more the perfomance began
to degrade at enormous rates.  This is similar to GNU\Linux on Mainframe
vs. NT servers.

NT is much more suitable than a mainframe up to about 5000 users at which
point mainframe cost/benefit levels off but NT continues to bog
exponentially with each client.

I think hardware being as it is XML/RPC is a good choice, but in such
technologies the 'poster boy' of the day has changed about every 3 years,
so predicting such things is unreliable. ;)

Derek