[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 14-Jan-2002 13:13
Hi Don,
<< But isn't this incredibly slow compared to running the function locally?
>>
Yes, but...it depends on your connection, the overhead of the marshalling,
and the amount of time spent in the function, as well as the frequency of
the call.
Even making an out-of-process call on the same machine is much slower than
an in-process call, and you *don't* want to call simple built-in routines,
in a tight-loop, through a slower pipeline. However, if you're analyzing
weather data for a national laboratory and you can call a routine that runs
on their Cray and just gives you back a result, that's what you should do.
IOW YMMV. :)
--Gregg