Re:Principles of Distributed Computing
by justin66 on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @07:51AM
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It was never popular and has been a dead technology for over a decade. (I can only go by mentions in publications. For all I know it has millions of deployments in some gadget or another. I suspect not.)
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Re:Principles of Distributed Computing
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @08:14AM
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Not entirely true; many of the concepts from Linda (Jini/Javaspaces) are around in the form of KV stores.
Could you elaborate on that? I'm pretty sure you mean something more sophisticated than a key-value store, which is about as old and dead simple a concept as we have.
Re:Principles of Distributed Computing
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @08:39AM
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No, I mean, tuple spaces were always quite simple as well as a simplification, and the use of KV stores in many distributed computing tasks continued that trend under another less soiled name.