Re: polymorphism (was compare swarm with repast)

[Russell Standish]

Yes - it is distributed - in this case over MPI. I really doubt CORBA
can do the job efficiently.

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Gulyas Laszlo wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Russell Standish wrote:
> 
> > One scenario I can think of is setting up proxy objects to represent
> > another object living in another processes address space. Method
> > invocations, etc. need to be passed via the proxy, so the proxy needs
> > to be able to handle rather unexpected sorts of messages. Objective C
> > can do this sort of thing standing on its head. I need to do this sort
> > of thing in C++, but I'm not sure I have the problem licked (but I
> > have a few techniques I'd like to try).
> >
> 
> 
> This sounds like distributed computing to me. CORBA may help in that,
> although it is not particularly easy to work with unless you have good
> development tools. Mobile computation may also help, but that rarely
> supports C++.
> 
> Sorry if this was completely out of scope.
> 
> Gulya
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