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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by ww520 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:35PM (#13476858)
"Embarrassingly concurrent" is not embarrassingly parallel. Parallelism is not merely making things concurrent nor making synchronous calls into concurrent async calls.
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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by di4na on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:36PM (#13476875)
once you are concurrent, what stop you from being distributed to multiple cores ?
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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by ww520 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:39PM (#13476896)
I hate to do this but I have to quote you, "You mistake concurrency with parallelism."
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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by di4na on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:41PM (#13476912)
Not really. Once again. What stop completely concurrent code to run on different schedulers ?
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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by ww520 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:06PM (#13477086)
What you described is concurrency. What OP was talking about is parallelism.
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