» Friday, 14 September A.D. 2007
quick thoughts
A Ferrari stretch limousine. When good ideas go bad. (Although those gullwing doors are pretty nifty.)
A friend told me last week that I am the only parent he talks to whose stories make him want to have children. I am unsure if I should be pleased or dismayed--or whether he was exaggerating a wee bit.
When an operating system capability becomes sufficiently important, Oracle pulls it into the database. Memory management became critical, so Oracle said, “Just give me the raw pages, and I'll manage them myself.” Disk caching became critical, and Oracle said, “Just give me the raw disk blocks, and I'll cache them myself.” Now NFS has become critical, so Oracle says, “Just give me a raw TCP/IP socket, and I'll generate NFS requests myself.”
Ian Lance Taylor is blogging about linkers and all their associated object file goodness.
posted by Nate @ 7:36AM