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Return of the Runtimes: Rethinking the Language Runtime System (2017) [pdf] (eecs.berkeley.edu)
55 points by ingve on Jan 15, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



AWS Lambda already solves #1 by simply reusing the existing language instantiation across calls, as far as I can tell. That pretty much percolates out to solving most of the other complaints that this document muses about.

But the larger issue is that not all systems are the same. They're not designed the same, don't deal with data in the same way, don't have the same performance bottlenecks, etc. If the author got their pet "One True Runtime", especially with a specific encompassing model of data interchange and orchestration, it'd be perfect for them, but have impedance mismatches with lots of other projects. If the """Cloud 3.0®™©""" standardized on such a model, it'd be too overfit compared to general use we have today.


Bingo?




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