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[Colin Walters]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, smog zer <smogzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, i follow the mailing list but i do not agree that because Havoc
> does not use float it should not be supported.
> I use float all the time in my projects (3d and computer vision)
> because the graphics pipeline is optimized for float, and i also need
> dbus, so i do no understand the inconvenience of adding support for
> float as lots of people will use it.

One thing I do want to say here is that besides the option of
marshaling floats as doubles; more generally if one isn't happy with
DBus-as-IPC, one can use the pattern of using the bus as a naming
service to bootstrap another form of IPC of your choice.

That could be anything from the address of a new raw Unix domain
socket all the way to a new localhost-bound TCP port where you speak
Protocol Buffers (http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/).

Particularly if you care about raw performance, not indirecting
through the bus daemon will likely be a large win.