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Michael Leibowitz michael.leibowitz at intel.com
Mon Apr 18 21:30:48 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 07:03 -0700, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > I think that making position providers as plugins or at least
> defining a
> > plugin interface should be a goal.  The ability to provide
> > high-bandwidth data between different providers to support hybrid
> > positioning information will more or less require this ability in
> order
> > for it to be efficient.
> 
> We really want to stop having to use D-Bus for communication between
> the
> master provider and the backends. I think that this should all be
> hidden
> away.

I would advocate plugins as a good way to hide that away and get an
efficiency boost.  Of course, there are still cases where process
isolation could be desired.  But in most cases, it's just overhead.

Cheers
-- 
Michael Leibowitz <michael.leibowitz at intel.com>



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