2010/6/22 Ricardo Aráoz <[email protected]>: > On 22/06/2010 12:18 p.m., Publius Maximus wrote: >>> Don't really follow you here. The server may not have to parse before >>> the execution, but the client will have to do it, all you do here is >>> shift the load from the server to the client. >>> >> Well, once upon a time shifting all the work to the server was the new >> hotness, as the era of dumb clients ascended. Now that client machines >> are more powerful than the servers of yore, and today's servers are >> monster-hulka-multi-core beasts of burden with gobs more space and >> memory than most people "back in the day" imagined, a more distributed >> workflow surrounding the large-scale data workload in more of a >> grid-computing paradigm is emerging. The complexities of this are >> vast, but new patterns are being developed to address them. >> > > So you agree with me that it only shifts the load from the server to the > client and you say that this is good in order to use today's grid > computer servers. I agree, but I'm not working for govt nor huge > multinationals that may have the need for this massive data workload. So > I think we may agree that this technology will be worth learning to the > small subset of coders that work with massive data. The rest of us > mortals will get no real advantage from this technology except it may > look good in our CVs --------------------------
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