CFV: New Project: CRaC

[Volker Simonis]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 5:44 PM Andrew Haley
<aph-open at littlepinkcloud.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/5/21 4:21 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> > I totally agree, but is aren't this good arguments for having a
> > project to investigate all these questions?
> >
> > Establishing this project doesn't mean that we will deliver something
> > within the next month but rather that we'll have a common
> > infrastructure for experimenting and a central place for discussions.
>
> We-ell, yes. Sort of.
>
> An API to notify Java programs about checkpoint and restore events
> seems to me like a weird place to start such a project: it
> concentrates on the "how" but not the "what" or the "why".
>
> This project proposal starts with an existing proof-of-concept
> implementation. Andrew Dinn's point, I believe, was that solving the
> snapshot-and-restore problem in a way that is compatible with the Java
> Specification requires thinking about a lot of other things as well.
> In order for the API to be meaningful and portable we'd have to
> specify a lot of things about what happens when. I don't think that
> such an API could be a part of Java before these deep questions were
> addressed, as they must be for Project Leyden.
>

I think your point of view is a little too much JVM centric. As I
wrote in the other mail, snapshotting on OS and process level is
already happening and can work remarkably well even without the JVM
being aware of it. I don't think we necessarily need a new Java
specification to further improve that use case.

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