Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?

[Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>]

Another interesting tidbit:

"Language runtimes provide services—notably garbage collection—that
can interact poorly with programs. For example, a generational garbage
collector may introduce seconds-long pauses in program execution,
which would disrupt a media player or operating system. On the other
hand, a real-time collector suitable for the media player might
penalize a computational task."

Maybe I'm just sheltered, but I've never seen seconds-long pauses in a
GC'd system.  Not even a bad Java app.

"Homogeneous environments also evolve into large, complex, and
expensive systems since they must support the union of the
requirements of every application that depends on them."

This also seems a little biased. I think there are excellent examples
of simplicity run amok in various operating systems that help prevent
devolution into overt complexity, including the OS presented.  I think
GC in general gets a bad rap, and coming up with a systemwide GC
policy might have been a good thing.

But now I'm showing my bias....

-Jack