[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Mark Miller]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
> MarkM: it does not assist the discussion to confuse the issue by
> conflating two distinct levels of abstraction. Operations at the VAT
> level occur outside of the E language level. Your statement is not a
> counter-example.

It does not. E is designed from the beginning as a distributed
language. Vats, far references, remote promises, and the possibility
of partition are all part of the E language and semantics. The
implementation is layered, but so what?

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    --MarkM