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> The entire network often has to go down in order to patch—very disruptive in the best of times This is why Erlang has hot loaded code, since around 1986. Th
by imglorp 10y ago
> The entire network often has to go down in order to patch—very disruptive in the best of times
This is why Erlang has hot loaded code, since around 1986. Those who xxx are doomed to repeat yyy....
- tlb 10y agoHot-loading code works in many languages. But it's not practical to hot-swap hardware driver code, especially in order to fix a bug that initializes the hardware wrong. Also, the bug in question caused memory exhaustion, which isn't necessarily easy to fix by hot-swapping code without some kind of restart.