Kinds of containers

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/21/2015 12:12 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:11:38AM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> My finance folks also rave about Pandas. I wish I could fork myself to
>> look into it.
> [...]
>
> Unfortunately, forking a human process takes 9 months to spawn the new
> process (slow OS, y'know), and the new process's module constructor
> takes about 18 or so years to run before it's ready for use. :-D  Also,
> the specs are ambiguous in some key areas of the semantics, so
> implementations in practice don't quite manage to replicate the original
> process exactly.

As one with two spawned forks underway, I totally agree. Besides, early 
versions tend to consume a lot of resources, emit many nonmaskable 
interrupts, and leak a lot. -- Andrei