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. -- Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D. Managing Director The EROS Group, LLC +1 443 927 1719 x5100 _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
