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From: Julius Schmidt <aiju@phicode.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] πp
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:43:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1010152341130.2220@sampi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinc_Y15TgxE4mvQOqVCZ_AmUxjJpC_afZdZqE1M@mail.gmail.com>

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Perhaps I'm getting this all wrong, but to me this seems like an
interesting idea, especially if you consider the impact of being "near
the files" on some classically considered computationally stressy tasks
like compiling (esp. with kencc). So moving the code near the data
definitely seems worth trying.

aiju


On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:

> There are definitely cases when moving the code instead of the data
> makes sense. But that discussion is mostly unrelated to the one on how
> to make the file I/O work better over high-latency links.
>
> 2010/10/15 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> On Fri Oct 15 12:33:19 EDT 2010, lucho@ionkov.net wrote:
>>> What if the data your process needs is located on more than one
>>> server? Play ping-pong?
>>
>> one either plays ping pong with the process or data.  one
>> could imagine cases where the former case makes sense.
>>
>> - erik
>>
>>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 19:46 Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-13 22:13 ` David Leimbach
2010-10-13 22:36   ` roger peppe
2010-10-13 23:15     ` David Leimbach
2010-10-14  4:25       ` blstuart
2010-10-13 23:24     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-14 21:12       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-10-14 21:48         ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-14 22:14         ` dorin bumbu
2010-10-15 14:07           ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-15 14:45             ` Russ Cox
2010-10-15 15:41               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-10-15 21:13             ` dorin bumbu
2010-10-15 22:13               ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-15 23:30                 ` dorin bumbu
2010-10-15 23:45                   ` cinap_lenrek
2010-10-15 23:54                     ` dorin bumbu
2010-10-15  7:24         ` Sape Mullender
2010-10-15 10:41           ` hiro
2010-10-15 12:11             ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-15 13:06               ` Iruatã Souza
2010-10-15 13:23             ` Sape Mullender
2010-10-15 14:57           ` David Leimbach
2010-10-15 14:54         ` David Leimbach
2010-10-15 14:59           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-10-15 16:19             ` cinap_lenrek
2010-10-15 16:28               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2010-10-15 17:54                 ` Nemo
2010-10-15 17:49                   ` ron minnich
2010-10-15 18:56                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-15 16:31               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-10-15 16:40                 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-10-15 16:43                   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-10-15 17:11                     ` cinap_lenrek
2010-10-15 17:15                       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-10-15 19:10                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-15 19:16                   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-10-15 21:43                     ` Julius Schmidt [this message]
2010-10-15 22:02                       ` David Leimbach
2010-10-15 22:05                       ` John Floren
2010-10-15 16:45               ` ron minnich
2010-10-15 17:26                 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-15 17:45                 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-15 17:45                   ` ron minnich
2010-10-15 18:03               ` Bakul Shah
2010-10-15 18:45               ` David Leimbach

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