Re: Quote from comp.object
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:07:25 GMT
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:07:25 GMT
Message-ID: <xAeHh.6984$PV3.62772_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Marshall wrote:
> On Mar 5, 8:42 am, "DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_br..._at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Mar 2, 3:30 pm, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >> >>>If we had true physical independence, even the process context switches >>>could mostly go away. >> >>Yeah. >> >>And we'd all have ponies too. >> >>There's a computer somewhere underneath it all, Bob. Ultimately you >>can't ignore that.
> Oh my goodness: a computer! Well that changes everything.
>
> Funny, I was going to post last week about approaches, including
> well-established ones, for avoiding the entire issue of process
> switching.
> Erlang for example is a programming language whose computational
> model can support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous processes,
> yet has very high reliability and uptime.
Hmmmm.... yet another language I have to look into. Sigh. Received on Tue Mar 06 2007 - 15:07:25 CET