[cap-talk] C-like Capability language

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 From: "Baldur Johannsson" <zarutian+cap-talk at gmail.com>

> >> which uses an agoric system to allocate system resources.

> Hmm.. I cant find this word ,,agoric" anywhere but
> http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/a.html
> (Agoric system). Are the voluntary transactions central? I am
> profoundly confused.

http://www.agorics.com/Library/agoricpapers.html

Agoric computation will require market-compatible mechanisms for
the allocation of processor time and storage space. Recasting
processor scheduling as an auction process yields a flexible
priority system. Recasting storage management as a system of
decentralized market negotiations yields a distributed garbage
collection algorithm able to collect unreferenced loops that
cross trust boundaries. Algorithms that manage processor time
and storage in ways that enable both conventional computation
and market-based decision making will be useful in establishing
agoric systems: they lie at the boundary between design and
evolution. Algorithms are described in detail.