There are many different performance characteristics that are important. Performance should also scale linearly as connections or objects increase. While raw throughput between one client and one server is important, it is not the only or the most CRITICAL characteristic. Many characteristics of the CORBA implementation should be considered. As always, actual application requirements to the relative importance of these different characteristics. With the high speed nature of most CORBA implementations, raw client/server throughput is often not a bottleneck. It is also important that factors such as the number of operations does not slow down individual remote invocations. Here is a list of some important performance characteristics.

• Scalability ACROSS connected client applications.
• Scalability across objects within a CORBA server.
• Raw throughout between one client and one server.
• Activation time of server processes.
• Activation time of CORBA objects.
• STREAMING time for different IDL types.
• Connection time associated with the first remote operation, _narrow CALL, _is_a call etc.
• Minimum memory consumed by a CORBA object.
• Number of file descriptors consumed by a complex network of distributed objects.

There are many different performance characteristics that are important. Performance should also scale linearly as connections or objects increase. While raw throughput between one client and one server is important, it is not the only or the most critical characteristic. Many characteristics of the CORBA implementation should be considered. As always, actual application requirements to the relative importance of these different characteristics. With the high speed nature of most CORBA implementations, raw client/server throughput is often not a bottleneck. It is also important that factors such as the number of operations does not slow down individual remote invocations. Here is a list of some important performance characteristics.

• Scalability across connected client applications.
• Scalability across objects within a CORBA server.
• Raw throughout between one client and one server.
• Activation time of server processes.
• Activation time of CORBA objects.
• Streaming time for different IDL types.
• Connection time associated with the first remote operation, _narrow call, _is_a call etc.
• Minimum memory consumed by a CORBA object.
• Number of file descriptors consumed by a complex network of distributed objects.