Re: One for the programmers or maths/logic geeks

huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>John Hatpin <RemoveThisjfhopkin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Snidely wrote:
>> > Well, how much does a rock or a tent want to write?
>> Hey, there's more then just rocks and tents in there.  You get walls
>> too, and various other things.
>
>Encode the data in one of those various other things? Like, you've got 
>grass in your yard. Store data in blades of grass. You've got paintings 
>in your house? Store data in paintings. If you have inter-object 
>communication, there's got to be a way for objects to remember each 
>other's crap. 
>
>...that's it: you don't map your land, you build 'rails' out of blades
>of grass, and let the bird follow that. Or you put an actual fence
>around your land, and the bird stays inside that. 

No point in using other objects - you can have as many scripts as you
like inside one object, each of them with the Full Guaranteed 16K of
Mass Storage!!!

The problem then is communicating with those scripts to get the data
in and out, which is a substantial overhead.  And, whether it's a
second script in your object or a blade of grass in a field, once that
script gets reset - say, when they reboot your server over on the
mega-farm near San Francisco, you can wave goodbye to all your data.

It's the lack of *persistent* storage that's the problem, not just
getting at memory.
-- 
John Hatpin