Henrik,
That is an excellent description of the impetus for the design of Hobbit. Thank you so much, I read it with much interest.
The 'dumb client' design is very handy in a shared environment, like the mainframe, where dozens or hundreds of virtual machines can be running on one box. We don't want a client that sucks up alot of CPU time when it wakes up. Also the performance improvements in the 4.2 release have dropped the CPU Utilization of the server by at least 80%!
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
Hi Wolfgang,
your mails were in my spam mailbox for some reason. I then started writing a reply directly to You, but decided to send it to the list also
- so it can be referenced through the mail archive if anyone else needs it.
Now I need your help, because my professor at my university wants me to present the software architecture of Hobbit in my thesis. He wants some pictures and diagramms showing the 'inner mechanisms' and how the different modules work together. So my questions is, do you have any information about the architecture, that you can share with me?
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