[cap-talk] small notes re: waterken

[Marc Stiegler]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 23:57 +0000, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Marc Stiegler <marc.d.stiegler at hp.com>
> wrote:
>         Using a different language on the jvm would not necessarily
>         help. E, of
>         course, is cleaner, but it is running an interpreter on top of
>         the jvm,
>         which is a pretty serious price to pay; I do not see how to
>         make E work
>         with Waterken well enough to enable E to exploit the
>         additional
>         reliability provided by the Waterken checkpointing protocol
> 
> 
> I haven't thought about it, so I don't know if this is trivial,
> impossible, or anything in between. What problems do you foresee?
> 

I no longer remember what my conclusions were during my one quick and
dirty assessment of the problem. It would be amusing to try to build the
Purse+CookieShop tutorial app using E on Waterken. If we could do that,
we would have all the hard questions answered. Alas. While this would be
fun, I'm not so sure it would be important.

--marcs