From: John Barham <jbarham@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:27:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f34febc0901312327h2fe297bk490d3ee36faac5e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d7d61e068228cc77ea1f53fc7eb4459@quanstro.net>
> the argument that if the normal extension
> mechanism for scripting languages is x,
> thereforenot having x is a weakness seems
> a version of argumentum ad populum.
>
> doesn't dynamic loading seem at odds with the
> tools approach? the more complex the interface,
> the less general the tool.
Dynamic loading allows scripting languages to load arbitrary binary
extensions at run-time. Without dynamic loading in Plan 9 you need to
recompile the Lua (or Python) interpreters to statically link in your
binary extensions, so in this case dynamic loading makes the tool more
general. (FWIW, as has been pointed out on this list previously,
Inferno applications can dynamically load modules at run-time.)
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-01 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-01 4:29 Kenji Arisawa
2009-02-01 4:41 ` lucio
2009-02-01 4:47 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-02-01 4:43 ` John Barham
2009-02-01 4:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-01 5:47 ` John Barham
2009-02-01 6:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-01 7:27 ` John Barham [this message]
2009-02-01 11:12 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-02-01 12:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 19:25 ` sqweek
2009-02-02 19:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 19:49 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 21:22 ` John Barham
2009-02-02 21:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 21:32 ` David Leimbach
2009-02-02 22:11 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 22:17 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 22:30 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-02 22:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 22:57 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-02-02 23:04 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-02-03 4:26 ` lucio
2009-02-03 4:43 ` Bruce Ellis
2009-02-03 6:38 ` ron minnich
2009-02-02 23:18 ` David Leimbach
2009-02-02 22:12 ` ron minnich
2009-02-02 22:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 22:32 ` ron minnich
2009-02-02 22:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 22:18 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 22:22 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-02-02 22:30 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-03 10:55 ` Richard Miller
2009-02-03 16:03 ` ron minnich
2009-02-03 16:07 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-03 16:48 ` ron minnich
2009-02-03 17:01 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 22:07 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-01 7:31 ` [9fans] Dynamic loading et al (Was: Pegasus 2.6 is released) lucio
2009-02-01 17:26 ` ron minnich
2009-02-01 18:42 ` lucio
2009-02-01 20:14 ` ron minnich
2009-02-01 18:04 ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-02-01 18:39 ` lucio
2009-02-01 11:26 ` [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released Charles Forsyth
2009-02-01 11:56 ` lucio
2009-02-01 13:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 17:38 ` John Barham
2009-02-02 17:48 ` ron minnich
2009-02-01 4:50 Kenji Arisawa
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