[Metakit] Starting work on a Java version of Metakit

[Jack Diederich]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:08:39PM -0400, Brian Kelley wrote:
> I'm working on the coredumps.  Actually, I've never seen them for the
> long-running apps that I have used.  Mostly web servers.  However, I
> was informed of some memory leaks that I am tracking down (explictly
> with the python wrappers)

My "long running" app is actually a web server, apache & mod_python.
I had used metakit in non-web applications before and liked it.  All
my unit tests for the web stuff passed no problem (they simulate a single
request), but in production it blanks the bed randomly.

> I'll keep you all posted :)

Do, I'll gladly be a tester.  How are you approaching the wrappers?
In my experience hand written plain-C wrappers are fastest and robust.
The current python metakit wrapper suffers from trying to eek out a 
little extra speed by having the real C++ classes be real python classes
to boot.  That's a tough thing to do right, and since it is easy to not
do it that way, why not?

-jack