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Thx, always feels good to be confirmed by what someone write ~15 years ago. I think he's right.
by valenterry 4y ago
Thx, always feels good to be confirmed by what someone write ~15 years ago. I think he's right.
- mietek 4y agoA comment under Joe’s post points out that this has been understood at least since 1994. > We argue that objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space. These differences are required because distributed systems require that the programmer be aware of latency, have a different model of memory access, and take into account issues of concurrency and partial failure. > We look at a number of distributed systems that have attempted to paper over the distinction between local and remote objects, and show that such systems fail to support basic requirements of robustness and reliability. https://web.archive.org/web/20030310070307/http://research.sun.com/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20030310070307/http://research.s...