why are Epic files read using a separate process (JVM)

Adam Megacz <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:04:31 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cad.electric.bugs
Organization Myself
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm curious: why does Electric spawn a separate process
(EpicReaderProcess) in order to read in Epic files?  Why not do it
from within the main process?

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