Re: [racket] Expanding frozen Racket core - limitations of universal touring machine

2011-01-17 Thread Jukka Tuominen
Hi Noel, > -Original Message- > From: Noel Welsh [mailto:noelwe...@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 January 2011 16:38 > To: Jukka Tuominen > Cc: users@racket-lang.org > Subject: Re: [racket] Expanding frozen Racket core - limitations of > universal touring machine > > &

Re: [racket] Expanding frozen Racket core - limitations of universal touring machine

2011-01-17 Thread Noel Welsh
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jukka Tuominen wrote: > Now, imagine the read-only OS was a snapshot of Racket+Linux+stuff, a few > years ago. > > - Given the above, I wonder if there are any theoretical limits preventing > to achieve all the same functionality that are in the current or future

[racket] Expanding frozen Racket core - limitations of universal touring machine

2011-01-15 Thread Jukka Tuominen
Hi all, Regarding Liitin project... Imagine the following setup: - A read-only OS environment (networked, unified number crunchers) - Access to infinite amount of data (external, global database objects) - Limitless processing power (actually both data and processing power are limited at any gi