Re: Object Capability model for IoT

"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]>
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David Barbour wrote:


è  In practice, an association table growing without bound would be problematic. So we would need some way to determine that a random string will no longer be invoked... i.e. garbage collection. In a distributed system, this garbage collection will be distributed.

I don’t see why the mapping table is a big issue.  If it grows without bound, that means the number of objects grows without bound, too.  Even with meaningful strings, you have the same distributed garbage collection problem.

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