At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:00:48 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > > 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.
You need code to call the daemon which presumably is in a library. Why is that so much simpler than spawning a new process which performs the same function? _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
