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G. A. Klassen & Neufeld
G. A. Klassen & Neufeld was a manufacturer of farm machinery in Sofijevka, Borozenko Mennonite Settlement, Russia. The company first began in 1865 when G. A. Klassen (likely Gerhard Abram Klassen, 1832-1908) and his son-in-law, Heinrich Neufeld, took advantage of the recent increase in available farmland to establish a factory producing agricultural machinery such as threshers, reapers, and mowers. By 1911, the company had an annual production of 200,442 rubles with 140 employees working at the site. In addition, the company owned three large flour mills in the nearby city of Melitopol, with a capacity of 6000 puds daily.
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Mennonitische Geschichte und Ahnenforschung Chortitza. "Fabrik J. A. & W. J. Classen (Kisiar, Taurien)." 2006. Web. 29 May 2012. http://chortiza.heimat.eu/UntU.htm.
Rempel, David G. "The Mennonite Colonies in New Russia: A Study of their Settlement and Economic Development from 1789 to 1914." PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 1933: 275-289.
Urry, James. "Growing up with Cities: The Mennonite Experience in Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union." Journal of Mennonite Studies, 20, 2002, 123-154. Web. 29 May 2012. http://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/viewFile/1089/1088.
Urry, James. "Through the eye of a needle: wealth and the Mennonite experience in Imperial Russia." Journal of Mennonite Studies, 3, 1985, 7-35. Web. 29 May 2012. http://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/view/42/42.
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10/31/07 at 09:27:49
G'day All,
Ive ordered the Decware corner horn plans. Should be here very soon - Yipee!
Im currently breaking in a pair of Fostex FE167E drivers about 240 hours so far.
This will be my second DIY speaker build and my first horn (well, second if you count a 'cardboard' Buschorn MkII I built for my son ;D).
I would love to hear from anyone with some useful hints and tips for the build.
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Keep us posted and put up pics often!
About three posts down there is a thread by Wild69 (?) That says Corner Horns X4 or something like that. To date, I believe it is the only comprehensive thread on them. I know that if you have very specific questions, he or Steve are the most experienced. I believe I saw a post from someone else stating that they had a pair, but I can't remember who it was.
Can't wait to hear your review! I want a pair of these so bad I can taste it!
Take care,
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Great to hear someone is going to take these on
... You may want to get the Decware modded drivers for these along with the plans you have as Steve really recommends them for the Corner Horns. Dave
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Cool; have fun!
They take a while, keep at it... :)
I didn't get the Decware modded drivers, just used the vacuum tube phase plug, then tried a FE166ES-R.
A few of the dimensions aren't exact, the drawing is more of a guide than an exact blueprint--If you try to measure it from side to side, top & bottom, the measurements won't always jive, but use common sense, and it really isn't that difficult a build. It just takes time.
I'll try to keep an eye onthis thread & relate experiences.
Robert :)
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Hi Guys,
Sorry for not replying sooner. I am new to being a contributor to on-line forums.
So I'm not in the habbit of checking regularly.
Usually, any spare time I have I spend listening to music ! :)
Plans have not arrived yet. I will post lots of pics as soon as I get underway.
- I have read the Corner Horns x 4 thread - awesome pics.
A little intimidating given the number of hours he spent building these.
I don't have a table saw, air finish nailer, belt sander or a band saw.
I'm going to see if a bloke like me with 'average' woodworking skills and tools can build these.
I only have these basic power tools - circular saw (buying one soon), router, drill and 1/4 sheet sander.
serenechaos wrote
on 11/01/07 at 01:19:20:
I didn't get the Decware modded drivers, just used the vacuum tube phase plug, then tried a FE166ES-R.
What tube should I try in the FE167E? Do you have some instructions on how to cut out the dust caps?
Also, have you sorted the room problems you were having? If so, what treatment did you use?
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Hi Alex, You should talk to or e-mail Steve to see if the 167 is even worth trying in the C-Horns. It's a totally different animal than the 166, here's a few specs;
fe167 fe166
Qms 4.63 Qms 3.89
Qes 0.33 Qes 0.22
Qts 0.31 Qts 0.21
Vas 35.94L Vas 45.11L
It would seem a shame to take on the complexity of the C-Horns and not use the driver that is recommended for them. In any case check with the man that designed them to see if your ok with the 167 etc... Looking forward to the progress of your build....... Dave
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G'day Dave,
I bought a pair of FE167E before the new DFR65 was available.
I was also considering some other designs which used the FE167E that were much easier to build.
This gave me a 'plan B' in case I decided to wimp out of building the corner horns ;D
I also read Steve's "Corner Horn Drivers" post on this forum:
Steve Deckert wrote
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I have recently created a driver for the Corner Horns that beats out everything I've tried to date. It is a highly modified Fostex
where the QMS has been raised by the addition of a second surround (convex poly foam). Frankly I was shocked at the improvement this made. The bass tightened up and flattened out. The mids lost the small peaks and the efficiency went unchanged. The unmodified Fostex was okay in these horns, but a bit wooly in the bass.
I will be making these drivers and offering them on the web site soon.
I will also be able to rebuild yours if you send them in.
...These drivers are an absolutely MUST have for anyone building these cabinets.
And this one from the Speaker Builder forum "NEW DECWARE FULL RANGE DRIVER" post:
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I thought the driver you based this modded driver was the FE167E and not the 166. What changed your selection Steve? Do you feel the that both drivers are OK or does the 166 have an advantage due to a touch lower QTS?
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I think either driver is okay.
I use the 167's in my corner horns but found the 166 to sound the same with perhaps a touch lower bass
. Since the DFR8 is based on the non-sheilded FE206E I thought it would be wise to do the same with the DFR65. That said, the mods can be done on either the 166 or the 167, buyer's choice.
So I can still get the drivers I have modded at some stage.
Having said all of that, if I had a time machine, I'd go back and get DFR65's instead!
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Thanks for the education, I should have re-read some stuff
. I thought for sure it was the 166 as it's mostly recommended for horn type enclosures and the 167 is used by many in ported type enclosures etc... Funny on the page for the DFR65 the specs are the same as the fe166... In any event it will be cool to follow your build
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Alex from Oz wrote
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What tube should I try in the FE167E? Do you have some instructions on how to cut out the dust caps?
Also, have you sorted the room problems you were having? If so, what treatment did you use?
Something about the size of a 6DJ8; so the front of the tube is about flush with the front of the driver worked for me.
An x-acto knife or scaple works well, just go slow. The tube pins stick to the magnet.
I built a clone of Steve's old listening room
in height, width, depth and the alcove. the walls around the corner horns are sand filled.
I tore the carpet out and put in a tile floor, and a suspended 8" thick fiberglass "cloud" hanging from the ceiling.
(Much better).
I built Quadratic Residue Diffusor Panels on stands so I could try them in different locations.
I got 2' x 4' x 4" & 8" mineral wool "pads" and made absorbers for the side and back walls, which again I could move around to find the best locations.
I built huge bass traps in the rear corners.
This site & their forum helped a lot:
Lotta work, took a lotta time, lost interest, didn't post much for a while.
Robert :)
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DaveCan wrote
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I thought for sure it was the 166 as it's mostly recommended for horn type enclosures and the 167 is used by many in ported type enclosures etc... Funny on the page for the DFR65 the specs are the same as the fe166...
G'day Dave,
You are right - the DFR65
a modded FE166.
I was answering the question about whether the FE167E would be suitable in the corner horns.
The main difference is that the FE167E is sheilded and the FE166 is
is based on a
-sheilded driver, so for consistency Steve opted for the FE166 for the DFR65.
G'day Robert,
Good stuff - thankyou. I'll see how the horns sound in my room when I've built them, then the fun will begin dealing with room accoustics!
So, now you've done your room, how do the corner horns sound?
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Actually I'm using different corner horns in that room now.
I like these even better, but it's probably best not to talk about them here, in a manufacture's forum.
It seems to make entire threads dissapear.
Robert :)
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hey everyone ive been busy since last winter/spring moved 2 more times
i have 2 horns with me now and the other 2 are back home in the garage sadly collecting dust
plan to bring them here to ottawa soon.....but til then...i may be willing to sell them for the right price
ohh btw the second alcove sounds sweet, even with both horns running off 1 channel of a crapy old amp i had lying around
heres a pic of how i had them set up in the place i lived over the the past 8 months
i made a pair for 4 1/2 inch high kerfed Mdf toe kicks for them once night
just so i can raise it up past the baseboard i also picked up some of the great black plastic adjustable feet and put them under the horns easy leveling and making it tight to the walls , gasket was also added against the walls and 1 batt per side of horn of Ruxul Safe n'sound 4 total
i worked at a commercial millwork shop building things like recpetion desks and many other things , loved that kind of work... now am in a partnership do more install cabinets and renos and tile work...busy busy
but soon enough ill take a pic of my current setup
ill try to keep up with this thread
its gonna be hard to make the 67.5 degree angle cuts over 42 " without a reliable table saw
not to mention the small angled and tapered peices from part V to the landing , i made a taper jig on the table saw and used a chop saw and cut each angle til it was right then made sure it taperd and sat tight on the sides.
the only way to put this piece in is to glue, and use tape or
i got a lil impatient and got out some window insulation spray foam and foamed it in from the underside( was the only way i could hold it ....is quite narrow inside the horn , couldn't even get a nail gun inside there)
ohh Trick for the sail curves i used a belt sander with 24 and 36 grit and mounted it upside down(makita is best for this) used it like a jointer and ran it across until i was close and started to do the compond curved angle
have u thought about finishing ideas?
painting is the way to go far as im concerned
veneering this monster would be a real b!tch
and ive done my share of veneering, especially curves
well ill check back and give some more advise as u go along
hope things work out for ya
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G'day wild_6_99,
Great to have you on this forum again.
Thankyou for the posts and pics of your build - really gave me some idea as to the challenge :-/
Still waiting for my plans to come :(
My room has two alcoves as well - I'll post pics and dimensions soon.
I have some ideas about how to cut the difficult angles without a table saw. I'll explore these further when the plans arrive.
I plan to paint the horns - the sails will be the same as the walls. Oh yeah, I will steer clear of water based paints ;D
Look forward to getting some advice from you as i go along!!
Alex from Oz
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Hi Alex,
Did these ever get off the ground?
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G'day Young_SC,
Well...not yet.
About every month or two I pull out the plans and get excited, but then get intimidated by the woodwork and shelve them again.
Life has thrown a few curve balls which keeps this project on the back-burner.
I still plan to build these because my lounge room has alcoves at both ends.
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Port, her best friend and I fled the city's crazy Celtic chaos over the weekend for a good dose of nature. Looking out for nothing more that a "good looking joint up north" I discovered the exceptionally handsome Hawkrise in East Chatham, NY. The Berkshires were absolutely nowhere near either of the places we had to be on either side of this adventure (Westhampton and Youngstown, NY), but this is what happens when you let an aesthete handle logistics. If you haven't checked out AirBnB for little jaunts like this, you absolutely must. The place was only $200 a night and could've easily slept seven people (with cuddling).
The place was designed and built by its owner, furniture designer Clarke Olsen. Many of his beautiful Danish-modern looking pieces are in the house.
Me, in my Armor Lux Breton sweater (that I wear about three times a week...I hope my co-workers like the sailor look) on the balcony in the morning.
Mr. Olsen designed this great rope bench in the '70s.
This was the view from my room. I was hoping a deer would pass by. I just got Porter, waking me up in the morning, instead.
...and this was the light fixture in the guest bath - Benjamin sockets galore (and glorious!).


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Checking in on… the CAAPosted by jstevrtc on January 26th, 2010
Ryan Restivo of the MAAC-based SienaSaintsBlog is the RTC correspondent for the Colonial Athletic Association. SienaSaintsBlog now features exclusive video!
Standings (as of 1/24):
- Old Dominion (16-5, 8-1)
- Northeastern (13-7, 8-1)
- George Mason (13-7, 8-1)
- William & Mary (14-5, 6-3)
- Drexel (11-10, 6-3)
- Georgia State (9-12, 3-6)
- UNC Wilmington (7-13, 3-6)
- Hofstra (9-12, 2-7)
- James Madison (8-11, 2-7)
- Delaware (5-15, 2-7)
- Towson (4-15, 1-8)
Important Games This Week:
Wed 1/27
Drexel @ Northeastern
The Dragons have won three of their last four games and they beat Northeastern in December. Since then, the Huskies have been on a roll and are going for their twelfth straight win Wednesday night.
Sat 1/30
Old Dominion @ Northeastern
Northeastern, with a win Wednesday against Drexel, would have a chance to tie the school record 13-game win streak against Old Dominion. Northeastern has won five in a row at home entering the week. With a win Wednesday, Old Dominion would put an eight game win streak on the line as well.
Drexel @ William & Mary
Right now it appears these two could be fighting it out for the #4 seed in the conference tournament and this is a huge game for tiebreakers since William & Mary won the first game, 73-48. If the Dragons want to contend for a bye, which the top four seeds receive, this game would be crucial to their chances.
Team Reviews:
Old Dominion (8-1)
The Monarchs held Delaware to just 36% shooting in an easy 68-49 road win over the last-place Blue Hens Wednesday. Ben Finney followed up his season-high 19 from Saturday to lead the Monarchs with 17 on 6-9 shooting. The surprise was Darius James who scored a season-high 15 points coming off the bench. Old Dominion made nine three-point field goals, one short of their season high. The Monarchs and Tribe changed leads four times in the final 2:05 and Gerald Lee made two free throws with 43 seconds to go to give the Monarchs the lead and a 58-55 win at William & Mary on Saturday night. Lee led the Monarchs with 15 points and the Monarchs out rebounded the Tribe, 40-32. The Monarchs have won 10 of their last 11 games.
Northeastern (8-1)
The Huskies went on a 23-6 run to start the second half and close out a 25-point win at Towson on Wednesday night. The Huskies shot 62.1% in the second half to score 47 second half points, one shy of the Tigers' total in two halves. Chaisson Allen led the Huskies with a team-high 16 points. Ten was the key number as the Huskies tied a season-high for three pointers (10) and extended their winning streak to ten. Nkem Ojougboh led the Huskies with 18 points on 6-7 shooting as Northeastern dominated VCU in a 74-62 win Saturday night. Allen scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half as the Huskies shot a season-high 58.5% from the field. Northeastern's record for a win streak is 13, set in the 1985-86 season.
George Mason (8-1)
Cam Long set a new career-high for the second straight game, scoring 17 of his 27 in the second half as the Patriots beat Hofstra 90-72. The Patriots scored a season-high 90 by shooting 66.7% in the second half for their third road win of the year. George Mason has won four of their five games on the road in the CAA this year. The Patriots went on a 15-5 run to rally from a brief deficit to pull out a nine-point road win over Towson Saturday. Long led the Patriots with 21 points on 7-11 shooting. The Patriots shot 55.2% from the floor in the second half and every starter scored double-digit points in the victory. "My teammates are yelling 'shoot!' when they throw me the ball because they know I am making shots and capable of making my three-pointers," Long said.
William & Mary (6-3)
Quinn McDowell was shut down and the Tribe were forced into 14 turnovers in a blowout 81-59 loss at Virginia Commonwealth Wednesday night. The Rams went on a 12-4 run to start the second half and held a double-digit lead for all but one minute of the half. Danny Sumner led the Tribe with 20 points on 8-12 shooting. A game that lived up to all the hype, the Tribe drew their biggest crowd to ever watch a CAA game and there were a combined ten lead changes, but they could not hold off the Monarchs, who made clutch free throws and resulted in a 58-55 home loss for the Tribe on Saturday. Head Coach Tony Shaver said, "Great atmosphere, well-played ball game. I don't think I can ask our guys to compete any harder than we did tonight, and I'm very proud of that. Tough one to lose, but a great one to be a part of." McDowell led the Tribe with 16 points on 5-13 shooting, but the Tribe were held to 29.6% second half shooting as Old Dominion used clutch free throws to take a late lead.
Drexel (6-3)
The Dragons went on an 11-0 second half run and scored a season-high 51 second half points in a 21 point home win over James Madison Wednesday. Jamie Harris led the Dragons with a team-high 20 points, 16 in the second half, on 8-12 shooting. Drexel turned the game around with three point shooting. The Dragons made 8-11 threes in the second half, coming off of making 3-32 (9.3%) over the last five halves of basketball. Led by Chris Fouch's career-high 29 points on 10-15 shooting, the Dragons pulled away early in a 13 point win over Hofstra Saturday. Drexel took a halftime lead of 18 spurred by 51.7% shooting and opened the game up by as many as 30 in the second half.
The Rams dominated the second half in front of a sold out crowd and had a dominant 22 point victory over William & Mary Wednesday. The Rams were able to hold the Tribe, the best three point shooting team in the CAA, to just 25.9% from three point range. Larry Sanders, who shared a team-high 18 with Joey Rodriguez, said he's confident in his team's identity. "This is the time we should be finding ourselves. That way, come March, we'll be playing our best basketball", Sanders said. Rodriguez collected 10 assists for his first career double-double. Sanders scored a team-high 22 points but the Rams could not keep pace with the hot-shooting Huskies in a 12-point loss at Northeastern on Saturday. The Rams shot 37.9% for the game and fell to 2-3 on the road in conference play. The Rams have not been swept in the regular season since 2005-06. The loss likely ensures the Rams will not win a fourth straight regular season title.
Georgia State (3-6)
The Panthers overcame a 12-point deficit to earn a home win over UNC Wilmington Wednesday night. Joe Dukes and Trey Hampton both scored 17 points to lead the Panthers. Coach Rod Barnes said his team's adjustments at halftime helped curb the nine-point deficit. "Our guys really responded to the change we made at halftime to press and push the ball up the floor. The pressure made us more aggressive and it slowed them (UNCW) down, got them back on their heels and gave us an opportunity to get some steals," Barnes said. The Panthers responded by shooting 55.6% from the field and shooting their best percentage in CAA play this year (50.9%). Dukes led the Panthers with 23 on Saturday but the Blue Hens got a clutch three to beat Georgia State 76-74 in overtime. Ousman Krubally scored a career-high 16 points off the bench as the Panthers outscored the Blue Hens off the bench 36-18. The Panthers have lost six of their last seven and four straight on the road.
UNC Wilmington (3-6)
Virginia needed a jumper with 2.2 seconds left to avoid being upset by the Seahawks on Monday night, as they fell 69-67. UNC Wilmington made a season-high 11 three pointers to close a deficit as high as 16 in the second half to tie the game with 4:52 to go. It appears that the Seahawks are finding their shot; however, they couldn't find an answer for Georgia State's hot shooting and lost their fifth straight ,79-74, on Wednesday night. Head Coach Benny Moss said, "We were not able to guard them the way we had previously up at our place." Johnny Wolf led the Seahawks with 19, who had three others in double figures. John Fields had his sixth double-double of the year, 17 points and 11 rebounds to lead UNC Wilmington to a comeback victory on Saturday over James Madison. The Seahawks had many chances at the free throw line, shooting just 54.3% of 35 free throws, and that included making just 5-16 in the final 4:43. The win over the Dukes snapped a five game losing streak.
Hofstra (2-7)
The NCAA declared Brad Kelleher ineligible for this season because he signed an application with an Australian pro team five years ago. Despite 26 points from Charles Jenkins and 20 points from Chaz Williams Tuesday night, Hofstra could not contain the Patriots in the second half in an 18-point loss to George Mason. Hofstra struggled mightily Saturday, falling behind early and getting blown out in Philadelphia in a 75-62 loss to Drexel. Williams struggled, scoring only 9 points on 3-11 shooting. Miklos Szabo led the Pride with 14 points on 6-12 shooting. The rest of the Pride, without Szabo, combined to shoot 32% from the field. The Pride have lost five in a row.
James Madison (2-7)
The Dukes could not contain a barrage from the Drexel Dragons, who went on to shoot 61.2% from the field in a 21-point loss in Philadelphia Wednesday night. Head Coach Matt Brady said, "Drexel dominated the second half in just about every way conceivable. It seemed like the roof caved in on us." Denzel Bowles led the Dukes with 19 points but Julius Wells, 11 points but 1-7 from three point range, could not get the downtown shots going. The Dukes tied a season-low with 2 three-point field goals and shot 2-13 from three-point range (15.4%). James Madison could not hold on to a six-point halftime lead Saturday, watching it evaporate at the hands of the Seahawks in a tough 67-64 loss. The Dukes have lost four straight games and have shot 27.8% from three-point range during the losing streak.
Delaware (2-7)
The Blue Hens could not hold a brief first half lead and were dominated in the second half in a 68-49 loss to Old Dominion on Wednesday night. Alphonso Dawson led the Blue Hens with 13 points. Delaware came back late, trailing by as many as nine in the final minutes, to force overtime and came through with a Jawan Carter three pointer with 13 seconds left to give the Blue Hens a 76-74 win. Carter led the Blue Hens with 21 points, scoring four of the Blue Hens' six points in overtime Saturday. The Blue Hens have won three of their five overtime games this season.
Towson (1-8)
The Tigers could not hold a six-point halftime lead as they shot just 26.9% from the field in the second half in a 64-57 loss at St. Joseph's Monday night. Josh Thornton led the Tigers with 23 points on 8-19 shooting. Starting point guard Brian Morris left the game early and did not return. The Tigers could not contain the Northeastern Huskies, falling behind early in the second half Wednesday, losing 73-48 at home. Head Coach Pat Kennedy said his team just ran out of gas. "In the first half, I thought our zone defense was working well. The way we played in the first half is the way we have to play," Kennedy said. Josh Brown led the Tigers with 14 points, 10 of which were scored in the first half. Jarrel Smith carried the Tigers with 23 points and Calvin Lee had a 15 point 13 rebound double-double but the Tigers could not get any closer in the final minute and fell at home 80-71 to George Mason on Saturday. The loss marks the 16th straight loss to the Patriots, a streak that dates back as far as 1993.
When not covering the CAA for Rush The Court, Ryan writes about Fantasy Baseball on Rotosavants.com and writes on his own website: RyanRestivo.com. Ryan is busy being immersed in baseball draft prep and has a very cool Fantasy Baseball project for drafts. You can contact him here.


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You know that religion consider cheating a sin.. you know also that the concept of cheating is different from religion to another and from one society to another.
I always wonder about these kinds of ethics issues and I would like to ask some few questions,
# How can atheists and agnostics practice faithfulness in their relationship?
# What is your concept of cheating in the relationship?
# What is your understanding about faithfulness?
# When you can call somebody a cheater?
Thank you!
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# How can atheists and agnostics practice faithfulness in their relationship?
Well there are certain evolutionary advantages to faithfullness and monogamy, though they seem to relate more to having children than to the wellbeing of the couple- though I'm sure an expert in Evolutionary Psychology can correct me. From an ethical standpoint its down to each individual and relationship to decide if that is what they want. At some level it involves jealousy and posessiveness, the idea that anyone other than us could have offspring with our "mate". So you could argue from an animalistic level about preservaiton of your own genes.
For some people it just "feels" right to be monogomous, for others it doesn't.
# What is your concept of cheating in the relationship?
Having a sexual encounter with another person without an agreement within the relaitonship that that is okay to do. By sexual you could also include kisisng in a romantic way.
# What is your understanding about faithfulness?
This is an odd question, it doens't really make sense. I understand that faithfulness exists. i also understand that some people prefer more open relationships. But thats as far as "understanding" faithfullness goes.
# When you can call somebody a cheater?
This is just a variation on question 2.
Ultimately it is down to the couple to decide what counts as cheating or not. For example I'm in a polyamorous relationship (Though I hate the term as it doesn't in anyway really describe the relationship) and both my partner and I are allowed to sleep with other people outside of the relationship. It would count as cheating I guess if when asked about it we lied, which would be dishionest. We can see other people and both feel that it is possible to have feelings for others and not have it affect our own feelings for each other. And we're doing fine - been together 5 years, Poly for about 18 months and not having a problem.
So it all comes down to the individual, but I'd say Cheating and unfaithfullness is something that violates the terms of the relationship.
Regarding the evolution of constructs that promote monogamy (jealousy, marriage, patriarchy etc.), we should be careful not to confuse proximate causes or monogamy with ultimate causes. People often accuse evolutionary biology of taking the humanity out of morality by arguing that everything can be reduced to evolutionary terms, and thus that things like love, cooperation and culture are nothing more than cynical ploys to ensure genetic survival. And, on an ultimate level, this may be a fair criticism. However, the fact that we have evolved jealousy and a drive towards monogamy does not make these things inherently less worthy, just as the fact that our moral sense is a product of evolution does nothing to detract from its validity. So, despite the fact that intelligent people can recognize things like jealousy and monogamy as products of evolution , those things do not deserve to be treated as any less real. They still constitue the proximate cause of monogamy; that is, the cause that monogamous person would name if you were to ask him to justify the practice. Rather than saying 'My genes make me, because genes for jealousy and monogamy have had selective advantage in the past', he'll say something much more human about a deep need for companionship etc., even if he knows his evolutionary biology.
Traditional marriage used to mean monogamy but in recent decades that has changed. Some couples are comfortable swinging or having extramarital affairs. It only works if there is an agreement or conditions accepted on both sides of the relationship. Sexually interacting w/ another person w/o your primary mate's agreement is cheating in my book. What they don't know won't hurt them is true but also cheating nonetheless. My conscious is my own personal guide. I know married men who somehow have a convenient moral disconnect when it comes to "getting some on the side."
I can look at the menu but dining is forbidden...... :^ )
Yeah so true!
Still, you can get full up from just looking...
# How can atheists and agnostics practice faithfulness in their relationship?
By living up to the understood norms that exist between the people in the relationship.
# What is your concept of cheating in the relationship?
Cheating is intentionally doing something on the sly outside the norms set the people in the relationship.
# What is your understanding about faithfulness?
Live up to what everyone in your relationship expects, and be damned the excuses.
# When you can call somebody a cheater?
When they deliberately violate the expectations of the other person(people).
I have never looked at being faithful to someone from a religious point of view. It's morality to me, which has nothing to do with religion. If I agree to be with one person and that person agrees to the same, we have made an agreement. My word is my bond and I have faith that the person I am with, feels the same.
If I was with someone who wanted a different type of relationship, there would be different rules for us, in our relationship.
I, personally, like having a monogamous life with my partner and it is something we agreed to. So if one of strayed, and we have an agreement in place, the other person who break the promise and be a cheater.
It's not very complicated... you make a promise (whatever it is) and if you break it, you have broken your word and to me, that's cheating.
Hi Sharon
//I have never looked at being faithful to someone from a religious point of view.//
because morality to us is not imposed by religion :)
//I was with someone who wanted a different type of relationship, there would be different rules for us, in our relationship.//
so, these different rules in the relationship must be agreed between the two parties!
Correct. When you are in a relationship, you should establish the rules of the relationship. Any relationship should be defined by what is expected of each person. Communication is key, people need to talk to each other.
I am always amazed when I hear people complain, years into a relationship that they didn't realize the other didn't want children (for instance). Really? You didn't talk about this before making a commitment?
If a person wants an open relationship, they should tell the other person, so the other person can either consent or leave because it isn't what they want. If you can't or don't want to be faithful to one person, say so.
And I don't buy that "cheating" is brought on by someone else's faults. If your partner gains weight or lets themselves "go", tell them, leave them, but if you promised to be faithful, don't stay and cheat. You make your own choices, other people don't drive you to tell and if you are an honorable, honest person, you will tell the other person, this isn't working for me anymore.
There is no reason to break your word. And if you during the course of the relationship you begin to feel differently, want something different, don't make those changes without communicating to your partner.
Very sensible, and honorable, and morally clear, and respectful of the other person. And that's the way we like it, ideally. Me anyway. A good way to treat people.
Hoggamus, higgamus, man is polygamous, Higgamus hoggamus, woman is monogamous. -William James
Doug, you may be right. But why? Women have babies. We have historically needed to know, and to have the father know, who is responsible for helping us raise the child. The females of other species of animals with brief childhoods and early independence don't need help from the father as much. Look at the difference between dogs and coyotes. Dog males walk off after sex. Coyote males stay around and help the females with feeding and watching the pups. Maybe that's why men are often called dogs.


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It was all about a minimal lip at NYFW. These looks are so purdy that ladies, you might be tempted to use up your oxblood lipsticks as fast as you can. The natural lip made the models look really fresh and beautiful, with a tinge of 90's grunge — whether paired with an edgy geometric cat eye, a punk smoky eye or an all-over natural face. Most of these looks were created with only the use of lip balm (MAC Lip Conditioner, $15, was often the balm of choice), though some used concealer to tone down redness in the lip and others used nude shades of lip liner. The best trick came courtesy of makeup artist Talia Shobrook at the Jenny Packham show (above). To create an ultra-feminine lip, Shobrook applied Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour in Seashell, $24 onto the lip's Cupid's bow, the curve of the upper lip. This subtle highlighting creates the illusion of a fuller lip and adds definition to lip shape. Adding the final touch, Shobrook lightly dabbed lips with Laura Mercier Crème Smooth Lip Colour in Pink Blush, $26. Here are other nude lip looks we loved from New York Fashion week:
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Photographer's Note
This is my experience with composition. This is a rurla scene near my town.
As Wikipedia said: The rule of thirds is a "rule of thumb" or guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such as designs, films, paintings, and photographs. The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.[2] Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would.
The photograph to the right demonstrates the application of the rule of thirds. The horizon sits at the horizontal line dividing the lower third of the photo from the upper two-thirds. The tree sits at the intersection of two lines, sometimes called a power point or a crash point[citation needed]. Points of interest in the photo do not have to actually touch one of these lines to take advantage of the rule of thirds.[citation needed] For example, the brightest part of the sky near the horizon where the sun recently set does not fall directly on one of the lines, but does fall near the intersection of two of the lines, close enough to take advantage of the rule.
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Sergiom (117241) 2014-06-08 5:10
Bonjour Serghei,
Maintenant que la terre est bien travaillée, il ne reste plus qu'à semer et de regarder pousser. J'aime beaucoup les sillons parallèles qui tracent une belle diagonale dans l'image. La lumière est magnifique.
Bon dimanche
mirosu (16313) 2014-06-08 5:12
Hi Serghei,
Excellent photo, superb arrangement. The natural field lines are outstanding and the color contrast perfect.
Well done.
p.s. I wish to answer your question. I was in San Salvador only 2 days (UNIDO Presentation) and did not have much time for photographing. I have some more, but the church was the best of them. The other are not very good for TE, but you can see some of them in my homepage.
dta (96392) 2014-06-08 6:44
Hello Serghei ,
Les ombres des sillons créent de belles diagonales dans cette terre fraichement labourée . Intéressant contraste avec le paysage verdoyant en fond de décor .
Nicou (192614) 2014-06-08 7:10
Merveilleux graphisme de champs quelle couleur de la terre quelle lignées et comme de vagues sueprbe.
bravo et amitié
PaulVDV (49236) 2014-06-08 8:24
Hello Serghei,
This field is beautifully portrayed.
The long lines and certainly those of the shadows add a good graphical effect.
Best regards, Paul
photographer_sg (6059) 2014-06-08 11:42
Hello Serghei
excellent composition with the repeated lines of the ploughed field. The visual impact is superb. The colours and clarity are outstanding as always. Peaceful rural scene beautifully presented.
Thanks for sharing and have a nice evening.
best regards
miumiu (6117) 2014-06-09 2:55
Hi Serghei,
Wonderful landscape and perfect composition.
l like your note too.
Best wishes
Silvio1953 (195794) 2014-06-09 6:41
Ciao Serghei, lovely composition with beautiful graphic, excellent perspective, splendid light and wonderful colors, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
resat1972 (7586) 2014-06-09 12:46
Privet Serghei
an interesting field
but very nice
looks good with straight lines
adramad (63434) 2014-06-10 12:29
Hello Serghei.
A fantastic composition with the land prepared for planting and that such as well-defined grooves, you get an awesome graphic to the composition, while a very good DOF, the line of trees at the bottom embellishes and contrasts with its green with earthy tones of the plot.
A gorgeous image with good color, high brightness and perfect sharpness.
Have a good week.
Very well done. I love it.
All the best.
mcmtanyel (57695) 2014-06-10 19:10
Hello Serghei,
I like the photo, especially the furrow lines that lead the viewer's eyes to the trees. Your note could be improved if the application could be adapted to your own photo rather than the photo that Wikipedia has, which is not visible to your viewer.
PS. Any approximate dates for the Pittsburgh visit? If I am in town, I will try to make it there.
erhan1958 (15961) 2014-06-11 12:19
A very nice composition courses,
We have received benefits
have a good weeks
holmertz (86133) 2014-06-17 6:26
Hello Serghei,
As I have said before I like your photos from your own part of the world. This one has great colours and light and of course there is a great balance in such a carefully composed photo, made according to every rule available. It's very neat and attractive.
Kind regards,
PiotrF (46284) 2014-06-21 2:01
Hello Serghei ,
very good picture of this interesting area of natural beauty. The lines give a perfect depth to the picture. The light is very well managed and the colors are nice and vivid.
Uhu (8609) 2014-06-30 0:03
Рурла сцена, говоришь? :)
Ну а что, ты не изменил Трекерфу, я так посмотрю. Хорошая фотка, ну вот сеют-пашут ведь, не только по офисам сидят, это хорошо.
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- Copyright: Serghei Pakhomoff (serp2000) (47063)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2014-05-25
- Categories: Daily Life
- Exposure: f/16, 1/100 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2014-06-08 4:41


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On 20 and 21 February 2012, the London-based Wellcome Collection is the stage for the final workshop organised by the Information Knowledge Management Emergent (IKM-Emergent or 'IKM-E') programme. Ten IKM-E members are looking at the body of work completed in the past five years in this DGIS-funded research programme and trying to unpack four key themes that are interweaving the work of the three working groups which have been active in the programme:
- Linearity and predictability;
- Participation and engagement;
- Individual agency and organisational remit;
- Accountability
This very rich programme is also a tentative intermediary step towards a suggested extension for the programme.
In this post I'm summarising quite a few of the points mentioned during the first day of the workshop, covering the first two points on the list above.
On linearity and predictability:
Linear approaches to development – suggesting that planning is a useful exercise to map out and follow a predictable causal series of events – are delusional and ineffective and we have other perspectives that can help plan with a higher degree of realism, if not certainty.
Linearity and predictability strongly emphasise the current (and desired alternative) planning tools that we have at our disposal or are sometimes forced to use, and the relation that we entertain with the actors promoting these specific planning tools.
Planning tools
After trying out so many ineffective approaches for so long, it seems clear thataspirational intent might act as a crucial element to mitigate some of the negative effects of linearity and predictability. Planning tools can be seen as positivist, urging a fixed and causal course of events, indeed focusing on one highlighted path – as is too often the case with the practice around logical framework – or can have an aspirational nature, in which case they focus on the end destination or the objective hoped for and strive to test out the assumptions underlying a certain pathway to impact (at a certain time).
Different situations require different planning approaches. Following the Cynefin framework approach, we might be facing simple, complicated, complex or chaotic situations and we will not respond the same way to each of those. A complex social change process may require planning that entails regular or thorough consultation from various stakeholder groups, a (more) simple approach such as an inoculation campaign may just require 'getting on with the job' without a heavy consultation process.
At any rate, planning mechanisms are one thing but the reality on the ground is often different and putting a careful eye to co-creating reality on the ground is perhaps the best approach to ensure a stronger and more realistic development, reflecting opportunities and embracing natural feedback mechanisms (the reality call).
There are strong power lobbies that might go against this intention. Against such remote control mechanisms – sometimes following a tokenistic approach to participation though really hoarding discretionary decision-making power – we need distanced control checks and balances, hinting at accountability.
Managing the relationship leading to planning mechanisms
Planning tools are one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is the relationship that you maintain with the funding or managing agency that requires you to use these planning tools.
Although donor agencies might seem like 'laggards' in some way, managing the relationship with them implies that we should not stigmatise their lack of flexibility and insufficient will to change. In a more optimistic way, managing our relationship with them may also mean that we need to move away from the contractual nature of the relations that characterise much of development work.
Ways to influence that relationship include among others seeking evidence and using evidence that we have (e.g. stories of change, counter-examples from the past either from one's own past practice or from others' past practice etc.) and advocating it. Process documentation is crucial here to demonstrate the evidence around the value of process work and the general conditions under which development interventions have been designed and implemented. It is our duty to negotiate smart monitoring and evaluation in the intervention, including e.g. process documentation, the use of a theory of change and about the non instrumentalisation (in a way that logical frameworks have been in the past). In this sense, tools do not matter much as such; practice behind the tools matters a lot more.
Finally, still, there is much importance in changing relationships with the donor to make the plan more effective: trust is central to effective relationships. And we can build trust with donors by reaching out to them: if they need some degree of predictability, although we cannot necessarily offer it, we can try, talk about our intent to reduce uncertainty. However, most importantly, in the process we are exposing them to uncertainty and forcing them to deal with it, which helps them feel more comfortable with uncertainty and paradox and find ways to deal with it. Convincing donors and managers about this may seem like a major challenge at first, but then again, every CEO or manager knows that their managing practice does not come from a strict application of 'the golden book of management'. We all know that reality is more complex than we would like it to be. It is safe and sound management practice to recognise the complexity and the .
Perhaps also, the best way to manage our relationship with our donors in a not-so-linear-not-so-predictable way is to lead by example: by being a shining living example of our experience and comfort with a certain level of uncertainty, and showing that recognising the complexity and the impossibility to predict a certain course of events is a sound and realistic management approach to development. Getting that window of opportunity to influence based on our own example depends much on the trust developed with our donors.
Trust is not only a result of time spent working and discussing together but also the result ofsurfacing the deeper values and principles that bind and unite us (or not). The conception of development as being results-based or relationship-based influences this, and so does the 'funding time span' in which we implement our initiatives.
Time and space, moderating and maintaining the process
The default development cooperation and funding mechanism is the project, with its typically limited lifetime and unrealistic level of endowment (in terms of resources, capacities etc. available). In the past, a better approach aimed at funding institutions, thereby allowing those organisations to afford the luxury of learning, critical thinking and other original activities. An even more ideal funding mechanism would be to favour endemic (e.g. civic-driven) social movements where local capacities to self-organise are encouraged and supported over a period that may go over a project lifetime. If this was the default approach, trust would become a common currency and indeed we would have to engage in longer term partnerships, a better guarantee for stronger development results.
A final way to develop tolerance to multiple knowledges and uncertainty is to bring together various actors and to use facilitation in these workshops so as to allow all participants to reveal their personal (knowledge culture) perspective, cohabiting with each other. Facilitation becomes de facto a powerful approach to plant new ideas, verging on the idea of 'facipulation' (facilitation-manipulation).
Beyond a given development intervention, a way to make its legacy live on is to plug those ideas onto networks that will keep exploring the learning capital of that intervention.
What is the value proposition of all this to donors? Cynically perhaps the innovativeness of working in those ways; much more importantly, the promise of sustainable results – better guaranteed through embedded, local work. The use of metaphors can be enlightening here, in the sense that it gives different ideas: what can you invest in projects and short term relationships? e.g. gardening for instance planting new initiatives in an existing soil/bed or putting fertilizer in existing plants…
Interesting links related to the discussion:
- Documenting change: an introduction to process documentation (a document explaining the theory and IRC's practice around process documentation over seven years;
- Getting to social (blog post by Harold Jarche, February 2012);
- Mid-term assessment blues (blog post by Patrick Moriarty from IRC on a flexible learning-focused M&E approach in the Triple-S project.
- Results from this IKM-E discussion on the wiki;
On participation and engagement:
Sustainable, effective development interventions are informed by careful and consistent participation and engagement, recognising the value of multiple knowledges and valuing respect for different perspectives as part of a general scientific curiosity and humility as to what we know about what works and what doesn't in development.
The second strand we explored on day 1 was participation and engagement with multiple knowledges. This boils down to the question: how to value different knowledges and particularly 'local knowledge', bearing in mind that local knowledge is not a synonym to Southern knowledge because we all possess some local knowledge, regardless of where we live.
A sound approach to valuing participation and engagement is to recognise the importance of creating the bigger picture in our complex social initiatives. The concept of cognitive dissonance is particularly helpful here: As communities of people we (should) value some of our practices and document them so that we create and recognise a bigger collective whole but then we have to realise that something might be missing from that collective narrative, that we might have to play the devil's advocate to challenge our thinking – this is the 'cognitive dissonance at play – and it is more likely to happen by bringing external views or alternative points of view, but also e.g. by using facilitation methods that put the onus on participants to adopt a different perspective (e.g. DeBono's six-thinking hats). Development work has to include cognitive dissonance to create better conditions to combine different knowledges.
Participation and engagement is also conditioned by power play of course, but also by our comfort zones; e.g. as raised in a recent KM4Dev discussion, we are usually not keen on hiring people with different perspectives, who might challenge the current situation. We also don't like the frictions that come about with bringing different people to the table: we don't like to rediscuss the obvious, we don't like to renegotiate meaning but that is exactly what is necessary for multiple knowledges to create a trustworthy space. The tension between deepening the field and expanding it laterally with new people is an important tension, in workshops as in development initiatives.
We may also have to adopt different approaches and responses in front of a multi-faceted adversity for change: Some people need to be aware of the gaps; others are aware but not willing because they don't see the value or feel threatened by inviting multiple perspectives; others still are also aware and don't feel threatened but need to be challenged beyond their comfort zone. Some will need ideas, others principles, others yet actions.
At any rate, inviting participation calls for inviting related accountability mechanisms. Accountability (which will come back on the menu on day 2) is not just towards donors but also towards the people we invite participation, or we run the risk of 'tokenising' participation (pretending that we are participatory but not changing the decision-making process). When one interviews a person, they have to make sure that what they are transcribing faithfully reflects what the interviewee said. So with participation, participants have to be made aware that their inputs are valued and reflected in the wider engagement process, not just interpreted as 'a tick on the participatory box'.
Participation and engagement opens up the reflective and conversation space to collective engagement, which is a very complex process as highlighted in Charles Dhewa's model of collective sense-making in his work on traducture. A prerequisite in that collective engagement and sense-making is the self-confidence that you develop in your own knowledge. For 'local knowledge', this is a very difficult requirement, not least because even in their own context, proponents of local knowledge might be discriminated and rejected by others for the lack of rigor they display.
So how to invite participation and engagement?
Values and principles are guiding pointers. Respect (for oneself and others) and humility or curiosity are great lights on the complex path to collective sense-making (as illustrated by Charles Dhewa's graph below). They guide our initiatives by preserving a learning attitude among each and every one of us. Perhaps development should grow up to be more about 'ignorance management', an insatiable thirst for new knowledge. The humility about our own ignorance and curiosity might lead us to unravel ever sharper questions, on the dialectical and critical thinking path, rather than off-the-shelf (and upscaling-friendly) answers – which we tend to favour in the development sector. The importance here is thedevelopment of shared meaning.
As highlighted in the previous conversation, not every step of a development initiative requires multi-stakeholder participation, but a useful principle to invite participation and engagement isiteration. By revisiting at regular intervals the assumptions we have, together with various actors, we can perhaps more easily ensure that some key elements from the bigger picture are not thrown away in the process. This comes back to the idea of assessing the level of complexity we are facing, which is certainly affected by a) the amount of people that are affected by (or have a crucial stake in) the initiative at hand and b) the degree of inter-relatedness of the changes that affect them and connect them.
Iteration and multi-stakeholder engagement and participation are at the heart of the'inception phase' approach. This is only one model for participation and un-linear planning:
- On one end of the spectrum, a fully planned process with no room for (meaningful) engagement because the pathway traced is not up for renegotiation;
- Somewhere in the middle, a project approach using an inception period to renegotiate the objectives, reassess the context, understand the motivations of the stake-holders;
- At the other end of the spectrum, a totally emergent approach where one keeps organising new processes as they show up along the way, renegotiating with a variety of actors.
Seed money helps here for 'safe-fail' approaches, to try things out and draw early lessons and perhaps then properly budget for activities that expand that seed initiative. Examples from the corporate sector also give away some interesting pointers and approaches (see Mintzberg's books and the strategy safari under 'related resources'). The blog post by Robert Chambers on 'whose paradigm'
counts and his stark comparison between a positivist and adaptive pluralism perspectives are also very helpful resources to map out the issues we are facing here.
At any rate, and this can never be emphasised enough, in complex environments – as is the case in development work more often than not – a solid context analysis is in order if one is to hope for any valuable result, in the short or long run.
Related resources:
- Whose paradigm counts (blog post on Aid on the edge);
- Strategy safari – a guided tour through the wilds of strategic management;
- Henry Mintzberg's books about management and other proofs from the corporate sector about the fact that top-down / command & control approaches do not work;
- Jerome Brumer's two modes of thought in psychology.
- Results of this discussion on the IKM wiki
These have been our musings on day 1, perhaps not ground-breaking observations but pieces of an IKM-E collage that brings together important pointers to the legacy of IKM-Emergent. Day 2 is promising…
Filed under: bridging knowledge divides, documentation, evaluation, IKM Emergent, KM evaluation, knowledge management, local content, M&E of knowledge, management, people, practice-based change, traducture | Tagged: accountability, complexity, engagement, linearity, organisational, participation, predictability |


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I've never been satisfied with the size header in heap-allocated types though, and the two bits reserved for GC pretty much forces you to use some mark-sweep variant. Integrating something like age-oriented collection with reference counting for the old generation would require an entirely new word for every block of memory. This is a prohibitive cost in functional programs.
Removing the Size Header
Reading about BIBOP techniques used in the Streamflow allocator gave me the idea of using page masking to determine the block size.
As in Streamflow, consider an allocator where each page obtained from the OS was partitioned into a list of equally-sized blocks. Each of these blocks does not need its size stored in an object header, since the size of the block is a property of the page it was allocated from, and we can easily obtain the page address by simply masking the pointer to the block. So the first block of every page is dedicated to storing the size, and all subsequent blocks are placed in the free list.
This works for structured data allocated in fixed-sized blocks, but unstructured data is dynamic in extent and can span pages. Unstructured data must also carry the GC header in the first word, even when spanning pages. However, we know that arrays and strings are the only primitive unstructured data described in ZINC, and they must now both carry their size information as part of the structure. We can thus easily identify "small" strings and arrays that could fit into a fixed-sized block.
As a possible space optimization, such "small" arrays and strings don't need to be accompanied by a size field. We can perform a simple test to distinguish "small" arrays: if the array pointer is more than one word off from a page-aligned address, it is structured data, since unstructured data that spans pages always starts on a page address + GC header size.
We now have a full 24 free bits in the block header, which we can reserve for use by the GC. 24 bits is enough to employ reference counting, or a hybrid mark-sweep for the nursery, reference counting for the old generation as in age-oriented collection. The GC to employ is now completely at the discretion of the runtime, and can even be changed while the program is running.
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There is a downside of course. Streamflow allocates fixed-sized blocks for sizes ranging from 4 bytes up to 2kB. Considering the above approach uses the first block to store the block size, we would waste up to 2kB on the larger block sizes. We could amortize this cost by allocating more pages and spreading the cost across them, but then we lose the simple page masking. We could avoid large fixed-sized blocks, maybe cutting them off at 512 bytes, but then we would still need some way to store the size for these "medium-sized" blocks.
We can't simply use a single word of the page to store the size, as we would then have an odd number of bytes to divide into fixed size blocks. Again, it's only a problem for larger block sizes. You can't split 4092 bytes into two 2kB blocks.
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As a general solution to these problems, we can eliminate the size tag on the page entirely by maintaining a sorted array of address ranges and the block size of the range. When we need to discover the size of a block, we perform a binary search to find the address range the address falls in, and extract the size. This operation is O(log n), where n is the number of distinct address ranges, ie. sequences of consecutive pages allocated to the same block size. I would expect the number of such page regions to be under 50, so the logarithmic cost should be very low in practice, though the additional indirections accessing the array can be costly due to cache misses.
A block header representation that provides for GC independence would be compelling. The page-level size header is promising, but clearly has problems. Hopefully, some clever person will devise a general way to handle the larger fixed sized blocks without wasting too much space.
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