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by qwename 3468 days ago
Relevant paper: "Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking", http://web.mit.edu/ravinet/www/polaris_nsdi16.pdf
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Argh, don't people Google names before using them? Polaris was HP's virus-safe Windows project:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-221.html

The quintessential hardest problem in IT: naming things.

Polaris is also a missile. And a star. And a PowerPC port of Solaris.

We're always going to have name duplication. At least it's fairly easy to disambiguate with a Google search.

So... completely unrelated to this project's aim?