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-I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine
-below properties in one system would be beyond awesome.
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-(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked
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3 Computation ideas
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1.1.1 Computation
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Process - Currently running program.
-- Lisp (programming language):
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- Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
+every dependent library.
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- Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at
+low level in the system.
-- Smalltalk (programming language / runtime):
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- This allows:
-- Everything is object.
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-- On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable.
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-- Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the
-fly.
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- Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
+already running processes.
-- GemStone/S: Awesome feature list!
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- Easier migration of running processes between physical
+computers.
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+ - Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
+storage.
-- Hadoop (computation system):
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-- Many individual connected computers behave as one big
-computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable.
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- Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
-- Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides
-problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined.
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- Possibility to clone/branch running process.
-- Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in
-resiliency.
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-- Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node
-that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network
-efficiency).
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