Cross System Personalization. Enabling personalization across multiple systems

This advantage should not be underestimated. A second one is simplicity: turning a language, X, into X-Linda can be done by adding a few primitives to the library and adapting the Linda preprocessor that feeds Linda programs to the compiler. Finally, the Linda system is highly portable across operating systems and machine architectures and has been implemented on many distributed and parallel systems. Tuple Space The unifying concept behind Linda is that of an abstract tuple space. The tuple space is global to the entire system, and processes on any machine can insert tuples into the tuple space or remove tuples from the tuple space without regard to how or where they are stored. To the user, the tuple space looks like a big, global shared memory, as we saw in Fig. 6-35. The actual implementation may involve multiple servers on multiple machines, and will be described later. A tuple is like a structure in C or a record in Pascal. It consists of one or more fields, each of which is a value of some type supported by the base language ...»