 than top
      speed or scalability.  Our goal is to assure that CORBA
      applications work correctly ``out-of-the-box,'' while also
      enabling developers to further optimize their CORBA applications
      to meet stringent performance requirements. </P>

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      TAO's performance tuning philosophy reflects the fact that there
      are trade-offs between speed, size, scalability, and programming
      simplicity.  For example, certain ORB configurations work well
      for a large number of c