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Of course I have my head in the stars at this point, but I believe that all of this is plausible. It's not only plausible. I know of environments where it woul

• smaddox 10y ago
  And yet interface compatability/continuity would still be important unless you can automatically change all of the deployed instances without inducing any race conditions or transition issues. This can only be done through a backwards compatible layer or bifurcation of the install base. So really, nothing would be fundamentally different.
  • stcredzero 10y ago
    And yet interface compatability/continuity would still be important unless you can automatically change all of the deployed instances without inducing any race conditions or transition issues. The VisualWorks Package system could theoretically be applied at runtime. It would create a shadow of the meta-level objects, then the new meta-level could be applied atomically with "shape changes" of instantiated objects happening all at once. This could 1) still incur a pause in the program and 2) in practice, bugs surfaced preventing the widespread use of the facility in running servers.