On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Apart from the startup time and memory cost, the biggest problems are > the need to tailor the algorithm by programmer for each for its > applications, synchronisation of sessions, the memory bandwidth it > took to transfer data between session. OTOH the low level solution is > transparent, J programmers will not even need to aware its existence. > Henry Rich had also suggested this approach if memory served me.
One problem with the low level approach seems to be that, so far, no one wants to fund the investigative costs associated with this change. To my knowledge no one has even shown a "proof of concept" implementation for any primitive. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
