At Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:26:06 +0100,
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> >   The patch is useful when one trys to build a serious distributed
> > interactive system for example; in that case, the programmer should
> > know how to write good code so the system doesn't have to try to
> > provide "safety" as much.
> 
> The patch is actually *useless* if the programmer knows how to write 
> good parallel code.  Hence the analogy with training wheels.

  Well, Andreas said that he uses the patch in a system and seems to
find good use of it.  So, the claim that it is useless
contradicts with the reality.  (Or, he doesn't know how to write good
parallel code.)

  Or, a good programmer should be able to devise his own parallel
program idioms so that Andreas' version doesn't have to be in the
public image.  (Probably this is closer what you mean.)

  Anyway, this is already in the domain of "rhetroic"...

-- Yoshiki