Agreed. In addition, since I have fairly addictive personality and enough addictions already ... I don't need to start an MMORPG habit.

I don't understand this. It's true Linux does not have kqueue. (as I recall Linus thought it was "ugly" ... whatever) But in theory (because I haven't actually used them), to achieve the same effect under Linux, you would use timerfd() + signalfd() + (your normal i/o fds like sockets etc.) ... and then epoll_wait()/poll()/select() on all of the fds you were interested in. In this way, one thread could wait for multiple different types of events, including timers and signals.

Would you please point out the flaws w/the above that make it impossible or impractical to achieve the functionality needed by Grand Dispatch? I would be enlightened -- thanks in advance.

I did run iBCS, and while it seemed to work well for what it did, it is not a panacea for everything.

For example, anything that was dynamically linked would still have dependencies on the original system libraries. So you get to copy all those over, worry about licensing issues (if you're trying to redistribute, anyway), and hope something didn't break on the way. In my experience, a c++ widget-generating app we were trying to run encountered both of those roadblocks, and we determined it was better to go another route -- java, hah!

You can lend friends money. Just not money you would mind losing. It's like gambling basically.

Side note: I once loaned a small amount of money to an annoying "friend" who then apparently fell off the face of the earth. It was worth the money. Although I suppose I could have achieved the same effect by just being a d*ck about his sob story, but that eats at your conscience a little more.

Point taken, assuming it has to be fast and there is that much critical code.

Well, it doesn't dispatch them :-) from what I read in the documents, all it might do now is common subexpression elimination.

The first time I saw the "brain" scene ...

I was eating vermicelli at a Vietnamese restaurant, with a bunch of kids running around the tables, and Hannibal was playing (muted) on their big screen TV.

:-( I don't recommend that.

I think the key word here is "might".

Nothing prevents a C compiler from figuring out "int foo(int a) { return a + 2; }" is pure. In fact gcc can do this to some extent; the relevant compiler flag (enabled by default w/optimization) is "-fipa-pure-const".

gcc also lets you specify the attribute 'const' to declare that a function is pure (in the sense that we're using it here).

Sure, it's coarse, and an afterthought, but it's also flexible.

Well, maybe both.

Yes I probably wouldn't enjoy being on a site that went on and on about "Windows Rocks/Linux Sucks" (as much as this site does the reverse, anyway).

But that kind of rhetoric is not really why I read this site. As an example, I found the (apparently) 1st-person accounts about air traffic and ATC procedures yesterday to be one of the most informative and entertaining bits I've read in awhile.

Slashdot has (more than?) its fair share of trolls, and troll articles, but there is (sometimes) a depth here that I haven't really found anywhere else yet; and that includes your local newspaper.

ClearCase also supported the typical 'check your workspace ("view"?) out to a local place on your hard drive, rebase it occasionally, make your changes, and check it in' model, and that seemed to work fine.

And yes we had a full-time administrator for the system. Would've been suicide not to.

I mean, the reward for waiting actually needs to be worth something.