BA chapter 3

Darkstar seemed like a very interesting concept. i've done some work with parallel programing myself and it does take another dimension of thinking to program in that style. with multi-core CPU's becoming almost commonplace now someday parallel programing might become more common but i think that will still be quite a while still. Darkstar appears to take the extra dimension away from the programer's thought process. one of the main concerns with parallel programing is scalability. i think there is a limited set of program types that need to scale up and down on the fly. throughput of a system can vary over time but few things spike in traffic like an MMO. an MMO world can be very crowded for a few hours and the population can drop off as most people go to bed. Darkstar isn't explicitly tied to games or MMO's in particular. it happens to be a good tool for the task just like a hammer is a good tool for hanging a picture. it's not the only tool but one of the better ones out there.