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SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 12:12 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by dlang
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

>If it really is such low overhead and as useful as you say, Why don't you (alone or with help from others who believe this) demonstrate this for us on a real distro.

Because the subject of this article already did that: http://icculus.org/fatelf/vm/

It's not as well polished as it could be - I got the impression that he didn't see much point in improving it after it was dismissed out of hand.


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SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 20:47 UTC (Thu) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link]

IMO the problem with FatELF isn't that nobody proved that it was doable(because they did that), but that nobody really acknowledeged that there's any real problem with the current situation.

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