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Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:26:10 +0000

On 10/11/2012 16:48, Saku Ytti wrote:
If native process separation and even native thread separation cannot be
made scale (I'm highly suspicious why it couldn't).

As the old joke goes, once you introduce threading to fix a problem, you
end up with evmeonr eprboelm.s

Then I wonder why
vendors don't use some existing VM, instead of inventing their own.

because of legacy issues.  It's easier to rewrite from scratch than to
adapt existing code.

Nick



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