CNI vs JNI in performance?

Michael Koch konqueror@gmx.de
Tue Oct 12 07:31:00 GMT 2004


On Tuesday 12 October 2004 09:14, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> 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.


Michael



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