Work is starting on the port of the AT-SPI framework to D-Bus. Codethink are, graciously, being funded by Nokia to undertake the work. Mike Gorse is working on the project full time, as part of his work for Novell.
Mike has got alot done and there are some initial D-Bus specifications, as well as alot of […]
I’ve taken part in a couple of phone calls this week, a quick conversation with Michael Meeks and a conference call with the open a11y group. Both about AT-SPI D-bus. There was a week of silence after my initial e-mail to lots of accessibility lists, and after that something of a storm. It was […]
I really enjoy profiling and optimization, mainly for those WTF moments when results pop out the other end. Systems rarely behave the way anyone expects, and I doubt anyone would have expected this:
Wierd D-Bus performance
The graph is showing time taken to pass many many messages of different size fixed arrays over D-Bus and ORBit. At […]
As part of work we (Codethink) are doing for the Mozilla foundation I have been looking, at the performance of D-Bus vs ORBit. Its a well traveled road with Ross Burton, Havoc Pennington and Frank Dunigan all having posted results before. As far as AT-SPI is concerned though its Frank’s results that are quoted on […]