So a 'real world' application is one you never quite have enough memory
and power for?
Douglas Roberts wrote:
I believe that under optimal conditions (from the perspective of the
garbage collecting language) a benchmark can be contrived that equals
malloc. I also believe that the converse is true, especially for
large applications. I cannot count the times I have had to reboot a
LISP machine or kill a Java app because they had ground themselves
into the ground attempting a GC.
I suspect, without offering any evidence to support my suspicions that
most "real world" applications, i.e. large to the bursting point of
the hosts' memory and processing power, will favor malloc over GC.
--Doug
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Marcus G. Daniels
<mar...@snoutfarm.com <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
Stephen Guerin wrote:
Ah, by control over its own execution, I meant "execution" as
thread of computation.
Yeah, I realize the word was overloaded.. See my other e-mail on
not being able to predictably get resources. (Scheduling a thread
is does not imply actually commencing execution.)
Here I was just getting Doug to confront his prejudice about
garbage collectors. ;-)
I suspect we might adopt more of an cellular apotosis model
<http://evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Apoptosis.html>
where agents remove themselves unless they constantly receieve
a keep-alive-message from other agents. There's also the idea
that there should be a mechanism where agents will migrate
away from the edge of the network where users are to lower
cost, high latency parts of the network when they are less in
demand - a kind of cold storage.
Cool. I think biological approaches to resilience and system
optimization are intriguing..
Marcus
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