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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2009 04:55:44 -0600
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
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> 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 :-)

Not obvious to me.  In today's (well, tomorrow's) massively multicore
world, I would expect a remote call to a process in another core, with
its own instruction cache, could easily be more efficient than a local
procedure call.