[opensource-dev] Client-side scripting in Snowglobe

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-02-20, at 19:37, Morgaine wrote:
>
> It is interesting to hear that you also had this kind of  
> communications architecture in mind.  I think perhaps it's an  
> applications model whose time has finally arrived, the age of  
> multicore.

It's a fairly natural model. It was really first introduced around  
1970 in UNIX... it's called the "pipe". Even on a single-core system  
it provides a significant performance improvement for a large class of  
problems where I/O and throughput matter. Of course as multi-CPU UNIX  
servers became common in the '80s and the norm in the '90s it just got  
better and better.