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Thu, 07 Aug 2003
Herlihy and VM's
Patrick Logan
heard Maurice Herlihy give a talk, and elevated him into the pantheon, which he richly deserves. I know him mostly from his work on wait-free data structures, which predated his arrival at Brown. If memory serves me, we overlapped just a little bit there, but I don't remember having any significant interactions with him.
Patrick then went on to extend our VM discussion by pointing out that
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... this level of concurrency control should at least show up at the virtual machine level. Why emulate a 1970's instruction set?Now there's a thought. Definitely worth a master's degree project. Might be worth more if things turn out hairy. And be worth a lot more if it actually turned up in Parrot or Mono. Truly told, there are a ton of old (and good) research results sitting on shelves in university libraries. Why aren't we picking this low hanging fruit in the open source world?
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