From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 27 2:12:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A5437B401; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17NVJw-0001Xn-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:12:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:12:08 -0700 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Larry McVoy's slides on cache coherent clusters Message-ID: <20020627091208.GA5930@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <3D1AB0C4.1F046F01@mindspring.com> <20020627071219.GB73837@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020627071219.GB73837@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Bill Huey Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message