Stephen Guerin wrote:
Ah, by control over its own execution, I meant "execution" as thread
of computation.
Yeah, I realize the word was overloaded.. See my other e-mail on not
being able to predictably get resources. (Scheduling a thread is does
not imply actually commencing execution.)
Here I was just getting Doug to confront his prejudice about garbage
collectors. ;-)
I suspect we might adopt more of an cellular apotosis model
<http://evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Apoptosis.html> where
agents remove themselves unless they constantly receieve a
keep-alive-message from other agents. There's also the idea that there
should be a mechanism where agents will migrate away from the edge of
the network where users are to lower cost, high latency parts of the
network when they are less in demand - a kind of cold storage.
Cool. I think biological approaches to resilience and system
optimization are intriguing..
Marcus
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