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from the Web page:
Flick, our IDL (interface definition language) compiler, is the research
and production IDL compiler within the Flux Project. Flick uses
techniques from traditional language compilers in order to produce very
fast client/server communication code. Flick-generated code can
typically encode and decode data between 2 and 17 times faster than code
produced by traditional IDL compilers, both commercial and free. The
result is that on stock hardware and operating systems, Flick-generated
stubs can increase end-to-end application throughput by factors of 4 or
more.
Flick is not just optimizing: it is also extremely flexible. Flick
currently supports the CORBA, ONC RPC (Sun RPC), and MIG IDLs.
Interfaces written in any of these languages can be implemented by
CORBA-, ONC RPC-, or MIG-style C language ``stubs'' communicating via
CORBA IIOP, ONC/TCP, Mach 3 ports, Trapeze, or Fluke IPC. Flick also
generates optimized CORBA C++ stubs that work with TAO, the real-time
CORBA ORB. Finally, because Flick is a ``kit'' of components, it can be
extended to support new IDLs, message data formats, and transport
mechanisms.
WWW: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/flick/
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