On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 04:25 +0900, sqweek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, John Barham <jbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dynamic loading allows scripting languages to load arbitrary binary > > extensions at run-time. Without dynamic loading in Plan 9... > > You're missing the beauty of 9p. Who needs dynload() when you have mount()?
I was going to say exactly that! dynload() is really not very well suited for a highly distributed age. I have come to realize that it is nothing but an unfortunate optimization of R out of RPC. Now, making 'R' fast (if your caller-callee is on the same node, etc) is very much desired. Trying to get rid of it, or pretend that it is not needed -- is doomed. Thanks, Roman.
