[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[Richard Maher]

Hi Neil,
"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:efb4f42e-e273-4aca-aac8-748ddb18b38c at a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > There are 2 types of VMS engineers in India. There are a few who have
> > made a career of VMS. And there are the commodity drones who come and go
> > as soon as they find a better job with better future elsewhere.
> >
> > The later type would much rather work on some industry buzzword like
> > gSpot, gSoap, gThis or gThat because that puts something on their CV of
> > value. They don't enhance their CV if they say they worked on adding a
> > qualifier to the SET command.
> >
>
> In this case, the people working on gSOAP represent HP folks from
> Germany and New Zealand (I think the original author of gSOAP hails
> from Holland). I tested gSOAP last week and it is "rocket fast"
> compared to "AXIS2/Java" so kudos to John and Brett.

Yep, I'm sure the way they set those compiler switches is fucking
inspirational!

>
> Neil Rieck

Regards Richard Maher

PS. Imagine a 3GL, binary, non-JVM implementation being faster on VMS than
an untuned version of JAVA; who'd have thought?