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Table of systems
Explanation of properties:
Persistence: (Parts of) the system can be serialized.
Detachable: Smallest independent unit
Distribution: Level to which a composable system can be safely distributed
Universality: Usefulness as a general platform
Platform Independence: Dependencies on lower layers (substrate)
Security: To which level of granularity the system or parts of the system can be isolated/policed/accounted for.
Boundary communications: How parts of the system communicate with each other
Task overhead: How expensive the instantiation of a large number of independent parts is
Target simplicity: How easy it is to use the system
| System | Persistence | Detachable | Universality | Platform Indep. | Security | Boundary Comms | Task Overhead | Target simplicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iolanguage | |||||||||
| Javascript/ECMAScript | medium | ||||||||
| Lisp | Image/Continuations | high | |||||||
| E | high | ||||||||
| Limbo (Inferno) | high | ||||||||
| Erlang | |||||||||
| Genode | |||||||||
| Hoplight | |||||||||
| Idel | |||||||||
| Stackless Python | Tasklets | Tasklet Serialization | VM | o | |||||
| Urbit/Nock | Operating function/Transparent | VM | definitional | ||||||
| Smalltalk | System Image | VM/JIT | |||||||
| Forth | |||||||||
| Tcl | |||||||||
| distributed.net | |||||||||
| BOINC | |||||||||
| computes.io | |||||||||
| EVM/truebit | Blockchain | VM | x | ||||||
| (E)-WASM | VM/JIT | x | |||||||
| CORBA | |||||||||
| Javabeans | |||||||||
| Lua | |||||||||
| Self | System Image | ||||||||
| Lola | |||||||||
| RarVM | |||||||||
| KeyVM | |||||||||
| KeyKOS |
