Self-interest February 2007

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Patents?
by Michael Latta 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

If I was to start a project using Klien and Self as a basis for say a Ruby VM. What patents are involved? Just because the code is BSD does not mean the patents are granted, right? Michael

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Self & Parallelism
by Anne C. van Rossum 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Dear list members, Online I read some articles about Self. I find it a very interesting language. I'm also interested in the optimizing compiler, but with a slightly different touch. I'm thinking about a way in which an application can be sliced into different tasks. Within a task entities may communicate with each other in a synchronous way. Between tasks communication is in a asynchronous way. (A task is a threaded entity.) An optimizing compiler dynamically reconfigures the application in an amount of tasks that performs optimal. This depends e.g. on the amount of processors. I'm interested how parallelism, concurrency, distribution, etc. is seen in Self. What kind of abstractions are used or invented? Are threads adopted? Or are communicating sequential processes used? Or does Self have its own view on concurrency too? Kind regards, Anne

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Self-interest February 2007