30 Mar
2017
30 Mar
'17
5:15 p.m.
2017-03-30 17:06 GMT+02:00 Stephan Eggermont <stephan(a)stack.nl>nl>:
On 30/03/17 17:02, Thierry Goubier wrote:
I suspect I may have a backup of that on a Sun MD drive I haven't been able
to read since at least mid-1998 :( So the answer is no.
But the core idea was simple: use proxy objects, and when you touch the
proxy, either loads the object from disk or forward it a message over the
network. Kind of what you would do on a distributed virtual shared memory
implementation combined with persistent storage. Use a page-based mechanism
for loading / unloading objects so as to reduce costs.
There is a guy in my lab working on DVSM; maybe that would be an
interesting subject.
Thierry
With Onil Goubier, we tried to publish a paper
describing that >
mechanism in Smalltalk in 1998, where the mechanism to
establish > links
between images was unified with the one storing the objects on > disk. It
was rejected, but the reviews were encouraging. > > The main engineering
difficulty we saw back then was GC-ing over that > thing.
Is that paper available somewhere?
Stephan
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