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Re:Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly by pjmlp on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:57PM (#16572055)
In a way it is ironic that we went full speed into threads, shared memory and plugins, only to go back into processes, messages and sandboxing as a means to tame multi-core programming and safety.
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Re:Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly by zokier on Monday March 12, 2018 @07:08PM (#16572508)
I thought threads and shared memory were introduced more as performance hacks than superior architecture. It is not surprising that as the performance profile has changed (due both increased core counts and improved software primitives), we are getting back those things that were deemed too expensive previously
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Re:Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly by platz on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:19AM (#16574163)
Concurrency abstractions are still built on primitives that involve locks and memory barriers.
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Re:Concurrency I can finally understand and write correctly by pjmlp on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:43AM (#16574391)
Just like the old UNIX process IPC or micro-kernels communication is.
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