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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:05:29 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
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On 7/13/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Brantley Coile wrote:
>
> >>From: "rob pike" <;rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>;
> >>Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9
> >>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:38:17 -0500
> >>
> >>I'm a radical here, but I think if a machine is paging, you've lost.
>
> This has been the rule in the high end for a long time.

And I think Ron Brightwell would agree with you both (Yeah, I used to
work on CPlant from time to time)

>
> Sadly, now that people are embedding python in their fortran apps (I am
> not making this up), they're starting to demand paging, not realizing
> what they're doing to themselves.
>

(vomits in terror!)

That sounds insane.

> Ah well.
>
> ron
>