MS OLE questions

[Kelly Leahy]

> > IFAIK, this is how apartments are implemented and this comes from
Windows 3.1.
>
> That's what I was thinking, but I found an article from 1994 claiming
> that ole would be shortly moving to the DCE RPC protocol instead of
> using window messages (and so they did).
>
> I guess they didn't purge window messages entirely.
>

I think MS was under the impression (not sure if it's correct or not) that
RPC is much slower than window messages.  I'm pretty sure this is true, but
it may not be if there are optimizations in RPC to handle non-cross process
calls using some faster form of in-process communication.  It may just be
slower for initialization (CreateInstance) and finalization (Release()) of
proxies and thus objects.

Kelly