Beautiful Architecture

tags
FBML, 138–140, 143–145
Tandem computers, 175–185
Task Service
Project Darkstar, 54
tasks
portability in Project Darkstar, 56
scheduling in Project Darkstar, 54
transaction semantics in Project Darkstar, 55
teams (see development teams)
technical debt
managing in Design Town project, 38
testing
effect of coupling on, 30
processor performance, 203
Smalltalk, 365
unit testing, 38, 79
text properties
GNU Emacs, 268
“the last responsible moment”
Lifetouch, 68
third-party support
in Messy Metropolis project, 32
threads
Jikes RVM, 255
as processes, 17
in Project Darkstar, 48
ThreadWeaver library
KDE, 303–311
Thrift
benefits of, 122
thumbnail viewer
ThreadWeaver, 307
TIB (Type Information Block)
RVM, 242
tightly coupled multiprocessors (see shared
memory)
time
allotted for design in Design Town project, 39
“Toy” processor
JPC, 203
transactional semantics
tasks in Project Darkstar, 55
transactions
scheduling in Project Darkstar, 54
transparency (see referential transparency)
Trolltech
Qt, 282
trust
and distrust, 156
Type Information Block (TIB)
RVM, 242
types
adding, 337
defining implicitly, 361–367

and functions, 332

and modules, 332

versus combinators, 330

U

UIs (user interfaces)

creeping featurism in GNU Emacs, 273

Lifetouch, 71, 72–76

unit testing

in Design Town project, 38

Lifetouch, 79

updates

database migrations, 81

as objects, 81

uses relations, 17

uses structures

about, 16

summary, 19

V

versatility

defined, xvii

Villa Savoye, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris,

373

virtual drivers

Xen, 162

virtual interrupts

event channels in Xen, 168

virtual memory

paravirtualization, 161

shadow page tables, 162

virtual organizations

compared to xenoservers, 156

virtual worlds

scaling, 45

virtualization

about, 159, 200

history of, 157

hosted virtualization, 164

paravirtualization, 155, 159, 172

versus emulation, 169

Xen project, 155–174

VM Magic library, 254

VM.boot

boot image runner, 245

W

Web

as a model for data access and sharing, 90

resource-oriented architectures, 92

Web 2.0

role of data, 114

web services

building in Facebook, 119

INDEX 403