[Expat-discuss] Performance magic in internal.h

[Karl Waclawek]

> On 14 Mar, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > Karl Waclawek writes:
> >  > Good stuff, Fred.
> >  > I also got a request to add support for IIOP.
> >  > Should we delay this until after release 2.0?
> > 
> > Only the IIOP support; that'll require we write at least one unit
> > test.  The fancy GUI and mail protocol support defy testing, so it can
> > go in now.
> 
> Im sorry, but, what the heck, does IIOP mean in this context (for sure
> not CORBA's Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) ? And about what fancy GUI and
> mail protocol support does you guys talk here?

Well, since Expat is so fast it could be used for SOAP over IIOP
(yes, the CORBA protocol). The e-mail support is for asynchronous
messaging, especially when the parties are disconnected.

Karl