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Colin, Curious if this opinion extends to something like an Erlang process or a BSD thread. Thanks btw for all your FreeBSD work :))
by Cieplak 9y ago
Colin,
Curious if this opinion extends to something like an Erlang process or a BSD thread.
Thanks btw for all your FreeBSD work :))
- cperciva 9y agoI don't know enough about the implementation of Erlang to answer that question.
- Cieplak 9y agoI'm sorry to dissect your quote, which is hall-of-fame-worthy, guess I'm just curious if it's always turtles all the way down, or if there is a "right" level of leak-proof abstraction. I imagine that every abstraction leaks in certain contexts, but maybe certain ones have stuck just because they're "good-enough" for common cases. I suppose I brought up processes and threads since they might provide for a level of parallelism that raw objects or closures lack, without an OS or runtime supporting them.