[jdev] Re: GNUPG as DLL

[Michal vorner Vaner]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:52:33PM +0400, George Hazan wrote:
>   Hello, Justin!
>   Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:04:56 -0800 you wrote:
> 
> JK> As far as I know, the GnuPG developers intentially don't provide a DLL
> JK> form of the program.  This is why even GPGME (GnuPG Made Easy, the
> JK> official library for apps to use) calls gpg.exe behind the scenes.
> 
> Yep, probably because that EXE should be completely rewritten to allow to 
> use the existing code as DLL.. For example, right now it uses global 
> varibles instead of context structures. That's why I was looking for a 
> brave guy :=)
> 
> JK> Having GnuPG in "DLL" form would only save you the time to load GnuPG
> JK> into memory, which is probably not where your cpu cycles are going.
> 
> I have an expirience in working with the standard PGP SDK, it's lightning 
> fast if you have the properly initialized context. And programs like JAJC 
> also have no problems with PGP SDK based encryption.
> 
> JK> How fast is your computer?  Encrypting a GnuPG message for Psi is on
> JK> average faster than the rate someone would chat, I think.
> 
> Unfortunately Miranda is very popular among the Win95 users, who launch it 
> on PII/233 machines with 64M RAM :) For these users launching a quite fat 
> EXE on every message is a mess (sorry for a tautology :)
> 
> Even on a PIV/2800 with 1GB RAM it takes about 200-300 msec to launch the 
> gnupg.exe and process its result. Such a delay itself is a mess for a user 
> who can type quickly.
> 

Than the system (windows) should be rewritten, not the program. The same
program on my linux box (1300MHz duron, 384 dimm am) is imediate(~ 10
ms), so there is a problem somewhere else.

-- 

NAT should extinkt like dinosaurs did.

Michal "vorner" Vaner
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