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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
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In-Reply-To: <200102200153.RAA00327@curve.dellroad.org> from Archie Cobbs at "Feb 19, 2001  5:53:58 pm"
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> > How much work is this?  What does it buy us performance-wise?
> 
> It would be somewhat slower because of the extreme modularity.
> But it would be more flexible, and possibly more robust and
> maintainable. Unfortunately it would also be a good deal of work.
> It would be a good exercise in networking programming though.. :-)

... and maybe with a chance of improving existing code in the process.
As someone said, you don't get things for free, but...

	cheers
	luigi


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