[ic] Interchange using lots of cpu...

[Duncan McGreggor]

Hey Gordon,

I've been using MiniVend/Interchange for about 3 years now, but in the 
last year I have begun using it seriously and professionally. I really 
hope you are successful in conveying the... "non-toyness" of ic to your 
colleagues, as it is most definitely not a toy. I have worked with a 
great number of e-commerce/CMS packages (commercial and OS), and of them 
all, I prefer ic (for a long list of reasons). The one thing that has 
really impressed me over the few years has been the complex nature of 
ic's internals, and the simplicity that is conveyed on the surface.

One thing to keep in mind is that ic truly is a complete e-commerce 
system. It has gone though millions of development hours, tons of 
testing, and security enhancement... the list goes on and on. The 
developers have done so much in order that you don't have to. Just think 
of all the diverse elements of full e-comm apps... I love perl, and 
there is always the temptation to write my own code for any given 
project. However, when it comes to other peoples' money and financial 
transactions, I put my trust in seven years of development by whole 
teams of coders who are, at the very least, as good as me, but more 
likely, far superior coders. Fortunately, due to the OS nature of ic, I 
don't have to trust only - I can look at the code (and learn!)

I would recommend a thorough study of the ic docs, and seeing that 
you're very engineering-oriented, you probably want to dive into the ic 
internals. In so doing, your deeper understanding will change the way 
you code for ic - things will run more efficiently and resource 
utilization will decrease dramatically.

Good luck on your crusade,
Duncan

gordon@nextrieve.com wrote

>Now I've got to try and convince my colleagues that interchange is not
>simply a toy.  If we end up doing everything in perl anyway, why use
>interchange?
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