[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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