Re: Program instantiation (was: Re: Translucent storage: design, pros, and cons

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:42 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> At Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:21:38 -0500,
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]> 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.
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