[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

You don't GC at all at the VAT layer, so explicit reclamation of vats
is orthogonal to GC questions.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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