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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
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On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:12 -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They solve the same class of problems, if you step back far enough.
> > If your application's mechanism of dealing with processing is to use the
> > namespace, then binding new functionality over old is roughly equivalent to
> > a plugin mechanism.
>
>
> I hate to be the one to bring this up but ... if you are providing
> some extended (e.g.) math functionality to a program with a shared
> library, people are going to be upset with you if you argue that it
> can be done with RPC.
>
> I hope the reason is obvious :-)

It is. It is a trivial case, after all. In non-trivial ones, the
same kind of discussion used to be quite popular in OpenMP vs.
MPI circles. And I shouldn't be the one to tell you where it
is going, right?

Thanks,
Roman.