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On 1 May 2006, at 06:30, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:13:12PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: >> Our original assumption was that doing Freenet entirely with threads >> would be excessively resource intensive - this may or may not be >> true. >> >> If it is true, there are a few new continuations libraries around >> that I want to take note of: >> >> http://jauvm.blogspot.com/ > > We cannot depend on a non-standard JVM. The VM runs in Java. > And according to the Aug 31 > update it has some serious issues! Those issues only apply to the high-level code that is being interpreted by the meta-vm. > >> and... >> >> http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin/2005/9/23/ >> announcing_rifecontinuations > > Excellent!! This is the preferred solution. > > We may however want to defer using continuations to 0.8 or even > 0.9; it > depends whether we have practical performance problems. Certainly I > have > seen OOM: cannot create thread, although I have no idea why; after a > dump later on there were very few threads running. We should only do this if we see that we have to due to performance issues. Ian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEVizbQtgxRWSmsqwRAscYAJwKRcdzd9MR0aQVv6/egIDBl1kiwgCfcgxl nc3DwFeOQItw0EW46Jds21U= =GUh3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
