Functional - Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

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Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

Markus E L

2007-08-22, 8:07 am

Paul Rubin wrote:

> Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> writes:
>
> In that case, dealing with memory pressure is left up to the OS's
> virtual memory system. Ugh.

Like the CPU memory is a shared resource: Virtualizing it and
distributing it is a task falling to the OS. The way that happens in
present day OSes is certainly ugly, though: Instead of blocking until
the resource "memory" becomes available, the process gets an error
even if it is not the culprit.

Regards -- Markus

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