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Development Tales from the Bible
Unix
Ch 23-33
And the Lord came to the lakeside near Jericho. John, the Apostle He loved, came to him. "Have thou compiled the program as I commanded?" Jesus asked. John replied, "Lord, after watching a few compiles to see that all was well, we realised it would be a few hours before the full compiles were complete. So we left it running and went
home". The Lord was deeply saddened by this. He said, "John, the number of classes simultaneously loadable depends on the amount of memory available - the number of classes it is capable of handling is essentially
unlimited".
Now Simon, who had been standing nearby, doing some last minute bug-fixes, spoke. "Lord", he said, "Developing multi-threaded applications is difficult even for veteran developers. Spinning off new threads is easy, but managing thread calls and synchronisation is
challenging". The Lord said to him, "Consider the Parable of the Object made up of many small properties. Marshalling the entire object by value is more efficient both in terms of the amount of data passed over the network and the subsequent access to the object. Custom marshalling is clearly a useful optimising
technique". At this, the Apostles fell to their knees and gave thanks. There were many people there who saw the Code of the Lord, and they too said it had a nice GUI.
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