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• To: joshuaa@m... (Joshua Allen)
• Subject: Re: Microsoft's vision of data and the role of XML in that context
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:35:45 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: aarons@d... (Aaron Skonnard), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C10662CE11@r...> from "Joshua Allen" at Sep 19, 2002 10:24:16 AM

Joshua Allen scripsit:

> Overall, I think the tradeoff is good for two reasons.  First is that
> it makes things easier for the 80% of programmers (80% of whom still
> haven't done any XML programming yet :-)).  Second, the things like
> buffer synchronization, worker threads, and so on are risks to platform
> stability and performance if done incorrectly.  The code example above
> is a nice, tight, loop -- it is hard for users to screw it up in a way
> that hurts the overall system.  And while that means that vendors like
> MSFT bear more direct responsibility for any threading/buffering issues,
> it also means that we have more direct control over these issues and can
> presumably fix or improve better.  It also means that we can do work in
> the runtime and programming model to make it a lot easier for component
> vendors to get their own optimized async/buffering (or even some naïve
> version "for free"), all while hiding this from most developers.

Welcome to Unix pipelines.  It's been a long, long route back home.

"Distributed coarse-grained data flow rulez!"
	--me

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                Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes,
                Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in Espagnes.

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