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Re:Teaching Concurrency (2009) [pdf] by srean on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:45AM (#12555202)
> ...but in general, people do not analyse this before throwing tasks at a problem.

Would that be just anecdotal ?

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Re:Teaching Concurrency (2009) [pdf] by TickleSteve on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:20AM (#12555347)
yes... in ~25 years in the business, over ~10 companies.

..and I can tell you that precisely none of them performed a correct analysis of a systems concurrency needs before 'designing' it.

A common artifact of this is far too many tasks.

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Re:Teaching Concurrency (2009) [pdf] by srean on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:48AM (#12555466)
I have seen egregious abuse of pre-emptive threads ... a lot. Abuse of green threads / fibres / coroutines ... not so much. I think one has to be a half decent programmer to be even aware those options.
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