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constructor daemon vs. constructor library
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Neal H. Walfield |
Subject: |
constructor daemon vs. constructor library |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:29:54 +0100 |
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At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:00:48 -0500,
Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:42 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > At Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:21:38 -0500,
> > "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Libraries are a tool that you should only reach for when the performance
> > > cost of engineerability becomes prohibitive.
> >
> > You are conflating separate issues. If you want address space
> > separation, then there is no reason why the C library can not spawn
> > arbitrary helper processes to execute the algorithms desired by the
> > user. I leave open the question for now if this makes sense in this
> > case or not.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Marcus: when people speak of implementing libraries they generally mean
> that the algorithm runs in the same address space. It is you who are
> conflating issues here.
You need code to call the daemon which presumably is in a library.
Why is that so much simpler than spawning a new process which performs
the same function?
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, (continued)
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/12
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Tom Bachmann, 2007/01/12
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/12
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Tom Bachmann, 2007/01/12
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/12
- Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Tom Bachmann, 2007/01/12
- Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/12
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/14
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- constructor daemon vs. constructor library,
Neal H. Walfield <=
- Re: constructor daemon vs. constructor library, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Pierre THIERRY, 2007/01/15
- Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons, Marcus Brinkmann, 2007/01/15