[squeak-dev] Distributed Squeak
Douglas Brebner
kirtai+st at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 18:22:18 UTC 2020
On 15/08/2020 08:56, Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
> Just an idea while a car is waiting to take me on a vacation.
>
> Imagine:
>
> 1. You have a computer with many independently running images.
> 2. A super fast facility pass messages between the images,
> 3. Selected services in the release image are move out and deployed
> as server objects in another image.
> 4. Every image appears as a server offering RESTful interfaces to
> other images.
> 5. Selected packages in any repository can be downloaded, compiled,
> instantiated, and deployed in an image as server objects.
> 6. The different images can even run in different computers and use
> different VMs.
> 7. There are now two dimensions to the reuse of functionality: a)
> download and compile a package. b In some image, install a package
> and deploy it as a server object.
> 8. And presto: The original image is now small and manageable while
> the whole system can grow without increasing the complexity of the
> release image.
>
> In haste. This is just an idea. It's full of holes and need a lot of
> work done to it before it can be usable.. It's a disruptive idea, so
> please give it some consideration This is before you shoot it down
> --Trygve
>
Sort of like using Images as Actors?
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