CNI vs JNI in performance?

Tue Oct 12 08:48:00 GMT 2004

Hi Michael,
 >>>>I've browsed the archives, but cannot find the answer:
 >>>>Which is the better to use: CNI or JNI?
 >>>>This is regarding rapid invocations from Java (for talking with a
 >>>>rs485-device) transferring byte-arrays back and forth...
 >>>>I was wondering which method has the most overhead, etc...
 >>>CNI is the one with less overhead, its just not so portable as
 >>>only gcj/g++ support it yet. "Portability" is the domain of JNI
 >>>for now.
 >>And this is with respect to both speed and memory?
 > I never measured memory usage but I guess CNI is better there. JNI is
 > surely slow like hell compared to CNI. And CNI is easier to write and
 > maintain afaik.
Ok - you've made my curious enough for trying - I'll try to remember to 
post the results when I get to it...
// Martin