Thursday, August 04, 2005

Patrick Logan has a post about adding support for capabilities in concurrency models like Termite. I'm keen to see what this would look like and am looking forward to seeing what comes out of it. An interesting link from Patrick's post is to Joe Armstrong's article on Conceptual Integrity in Erlang. Joe's article goes through how everything could be modelled as a process or device, including files, the action of spawning processes, etc. This reminds me of Plan 9, where everything can be treated as a file. 3:11:34 PM

From a Lambda the Ultimate discussion: Bigloo.NET, compiling Scheme to .NET CLR: We discuss how to map Scheme constructs to CIL.We present performance analyses on a large set of real-life and standard Scheme benchmarks. In particular, we compare the speed of these programs when compiled to C, JVM and .NET. We show that in term of speed performance of the Mono implementation of .NET, the best implementing running on both Windows and Linux, still lags behind C and fast JVMs such as the Sun’s implementations. 3:06:16 PM