Re: understanding 9grid and clustering?

On Dec 6, 2004, at 6:09 PM, boyd, rounin wrote:

>> no mmap() in plan 9.
>
> as it should be.

(I am a newbie to this, so please pardon my ignorance.)

How bad would mmap() be?
Have other ways been considered in the past?

I wonder if it would be useful to spin off threads and have them 
executing or self-migrating to another node somewhere else on a cluster 
or grid where there are more cycles available.

-rh