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From: thomasw@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Thomas Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Re: Stash Collection (Economic models)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 23:49:27 GMT
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Is the market economy model applicable to computer programs?  The theory
assumes that individual component be able to figure out what is the least
cost option to complete a task from a mixture of options.  Human beings
do this with relative ease.  But I would think programs would have
difficulty dealing with this sort of decision making.  Maybe the market
economy can work with transations between large computer systems, but I
hardly consider it a general mechanism for dealing with resource
allocations.

 -Thomas Wang
              (Everything is an object.)
                                                     wang@hpdmsjlm.cup.hp.com
                                                     thomasw@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com