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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 02:36:02 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Bosko Radivojevic <bole@falcon.etf.bg.ac.yu>
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Subject: vm philosophising
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Bosko Radivojevic wrote:

> There is no way to make one good VM for all possible situations. But,
> you can tune/make one VM to work great on large DBMS (e.g.) and
> tune/make another one to work great on ordinary desktop systems

This is an interesting assertion ... but up to date nobody has
been able to tell me what exactly should be different between
these two mythical VMs ;)

regards,

Rik
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