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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 versus CORBA?
In-Reply-To: Message from andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
   of "Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:25:59 MDT." <3BAB4DF7.708203E1@mail.usask.ca>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:16:34 -0400
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| when i did a small undergraduate presentation on plan9 (i tried to do
| distributed bioinformatics computations) one of my professors asked me the
| same question: "why not corba?"..

In an abstract way I like the idea of component architectures, but I
like the idea of clarity and simplicity even more.  In the bioinformatics
research that I do, we mostly use flat text files and some SQL.

While we're on the topic of scientific computing, a disadvantage that
Plan 9 and Linux share is that they chop up the address space.  One nice
thing about Solaris is that you can malloc several contiguous gigabytes.