Currently it's bad, like horrendously bad, 30x less efficient in some cases that I've tested.
Ouch. Back when I played with it efficiency wasn't even under discussion, as the basics had just gotten there (topic/service/action support), last I paid attention to this matter was during to some performance/inconsistencies of FastDDS (during Foxy, maybe?) from which the default was changed to Cyclone, but I must admit I'm a bit out of the loop.
Yeah 2 years seems a long time, but it never turns out that way. It really pains me to see useful packages made obsolete and unusable again and again for no reason but moving to the next release which usually brings effectively nothing by itself.
Yup. Two years makes sense for cloud, but with hardware involved and a fleet deployed in varying conditions around the world, 2 years to migrate a major version of ROS and Ubuntu is maybe too short (not even considering packages that you depend on that might not be ported at all). I would love to see other distros with longer spans (Alma/RHEL/Debian) becoming 1st class citizens and ROS releases turning into incremental versions running on the same platform until they reach EOL, at "robotics pace" that would be fantastic.
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Ouch. Back when I played with it efficiency wasn't even under discussion, as the basics had just gotten there (topic/service/action support), last I paid attention to this matter was during to some performance/inconsistencies of FastDDS (during Foxy, maybe?) from which the default was changed to Cyclone, but I must admit I'm a bit out of the loop.
Yup. Two years makes sense for cloud, but with hardware involved and a fleet deployed in varying conditions around the world, 2 years to migrate a major version of ROS and Ubuntu is maybe too short (not even considering packages that you depend on that might not be ported at all). I would love to see other distros with longer spans (Alma/RHEL/Debian) becoming 1st class citizens and ROS releases turning into incremental versions running on the same platform until they reach EOL, at "robotics pace" that would be fantastic.