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From: "Roman Vasilyev" <rvasilyev@netflix.com>
To: "Andy Cobley" <acobley@computing.dundee.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re[2]: C* engine
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:46:19 +0000
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Never will say that Erlang will be faster and memory consumption will be=
=20
lower than native code. Rest of it totally agree with Brandon, in a few=20
words I'm talking about serious parallel project on improving Cassandra=20
basics.

------ Original Message ------
From: "Andy Cobley" <acobley@computing.dundee.ac.uk>
To: "<dev@cassandra.apache.org>" <dev@cassandra.apache.org>; "Roman=20
Vasilyev" <rvasilyev@netflix.com>
Sent: 12/19/2013 11:40:55 AM
Subject: Re: C* engine

>The question just as easily be asked, why not rewrite it in Erlang ?=20
>Probably lots of advantages to be gained there, the ability to upgrade=20
>on the fly, native message passing, functional programming paradigm ?
>
>But as Brandon says, you would be throwing away so much work, would it=20
>be worth it ?
>
>Andy
>
>
>On 19 Dec 2013, at 19:22, Roman Vasilyev <rvasilyev@netflix.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  Don't want to rise "holy war". Just let me share my crazy thoughts.
>>  I believe it could improve Cassandra speed and robustness.
>>
>>  What people will say if I propose to have Cassandra engine written in=
=20
>>C/C++, and this engine will give you ability to run extensions in=20
>>Java, Groovy and bunch other languages like Perl/Python/Ruby?
>>
>>  I just want to understand for myself does this solution will be=20
>>useful or I'm looking in wrong direction?
>>
>>  Thank you for reading.
>
>
>The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No.=20
>SC015096.
>
>