Can you please explain the bold part?
"Always lurking in the background is the issue of performance. Building a transparent, flexible, reliable distributed system will not win you any prizes if it is as slow as molasses. In particular, when running a particular application on a distributed system, it should not be appreciably worse than running the same application on a single processor. Unfortunately, achieving this is easier said than done."
anonymous achieving this is easier said than done In reality, it is not easy to achieve this. It is easier to say this than to achieve it.
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anonymousachieving this is easier said than done
In reality, it is not easy to achieve this.
It is easier to say this than to achieve it.