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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:12:08 -0700
From:      Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Larry McVoy's slides on cache coherent clusters
Message-ID:  <20020627091208.GA5930@gnuppy.monkey.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020627071219.GB73837@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <3D1AB0C4.1F046F01@mindspring.com> <20020627071219.GB73837@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:42:19PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > While it's technically about Linux, his criticisms, if valid
> > also apply equally to FreeBSD.  In any case, it's a thought
> > provoking read.
> 
> Julian Elischer and I met with Larry during the last BSDCon.  He had
> intended to come and talk to us about it, but for some reason changed
> his mind.  Admittedly neither Julian nor I were overly impressed with
> what he had to say about the concept.

It's a different kind of programming model with different conceptual
structures so it's difficult to really "get" what's good about the
schema. It's probably a good idea for a certain set of problems though.

I probably shouldn't be posting about stuff like this. ;)

bill


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