Re: Exception Misconceptions
On Dec 20, 8:40 pm, Brian <c...@mailvault.com> wrote:
On Dec 20, 7:06 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
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My first reaction to your description is that you obviously need
two processes: one doing the filtering, and another to manage
the GUI. With a queue between them. In this case, from
experience, I'd say that two processes are a must, because you
want the filtering to maintain as small a footprint and use as
few resources as possible. Which means, BTW, that I would do it
in C++, and that I wouldn't use garbage collection, since
garbage collection does have a significant memory overhead (and
in such filtering applications, unlike a lot of other
applications, doesn't really buy you that much). For the GUI,
I'd use Java, because I know Swing, and I don't know any of the
C++ GUI libraries.
It might make sense to learn one of those C++ GUI libs since
then the filtering could be done in a thread.
In this particular case, I think a separate process would be
preferable. But that doesn't mean that I shouldn't learnone of
those C++ GUI libs. In case I get a different job, where
threads would be more appropriate.
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