Re:Pessimism about parallelism
by sedachv on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:34PM
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> It is great that Rust supports it, but I really wish people would stop talking about it being novel and unique.
What I really wish people would learn from Actors is that even if your programming language prevents trivial race conditions over shared memory or message passing primitives, none of that guarantees anything about the behavior of the system you are building once you start to compose those primitives. Gul Agha's dissertation was really eye-opening.
What I really wish people would learn from Actors is that even if your programming language prevents trivial race conditions over shared memory or message passing primitives, none of that guarantees anything about the behavior of the system you are building once you start to compose those primitives. Gul Agha's dissertation was really eye-opening.