I know that this isn't where you are going with your comment, but I think it actually meets the spirit of what you are trying to do, just in a more revolutionary way than you specify.
There is already an Apache project to "avoid shared memory to make application that exploit parallelism easier". That is Hadoop (especially with Pig). On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Russel Winder <russel.win...@concertant.com > wrote: > At the heart of all the problems is shared memory. Perhaps it is worth > challenging the use of shared memory models for application programming; > perhaps it is worth building new APIs that avoid shared memory in order > to make application that exploit parallelism easier for the average > programmer to write. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve 4600 Bohannon Drive, Suite 220 Menlo Park, CA 94025 www.deepdyve.com 650-324-0110, ext. 738 858-414-0013 (m)
