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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by cpursley on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:40AM (#37260567)
Vs which other languages - do you have examples of better patterns?
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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by peoplefromibiza on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:45AM (#37260610)
all the C family

all the JVM languages

all the .Net languages

Rust

Ruby

Python

etc.

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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by throwawaymaths on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:25AM (#37260911)
Python lists are generally not contiguously allocated memory (I think it might be if you are storing integers less than 255), don't be fooled. That's why you need numpy.
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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by peoplefromibiza on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:53AM (#37261138)
I'm talking about Python arrays

https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html

   >>> a = array('B', [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
   >>> str(a.buffer_info()[1] * a.itemsize) + " bytes at address #" + str(a.buffer_info()[0])
   '5 bytes at address #4379640336'


   >>> b = array('l', [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
   >>> str(b.buffer_info()[1] * b.itemsize) + " bytes at address #" + str(b.buffer_info()[0])
   '40 bytes at address #4380812752'
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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by cpursley on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:02AM (#37260722)
Thanks. What's the Ruby example? It's the one I'm most familiar in.
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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by peoplefromibiza on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:23AM (#37260891) 

   irb(main):002:0> ["GFG", "GFG", "GFG", "GFG"].class
   => Array
   irb(main):003:0> {1 => "CFG", 2 => "CFG"}.class
   => Hash
   irb(main):006:0> {1 => "CFG", 2 => "CFG"}.keys.class
   => Array
   irb(main):007:0> {1 => "CFG", 2 => "CFG"}.values
   => ["CFG", "CFG"]
   irb(main):008:0> {1 => "CFG", 2 => "CFG"}.values.class
   => Array
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Re:Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency by heisenbugs on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:15PM (#37269337)
You can achieve a similar goal with the Akka framework on the JVM (functionally native with Scala). Uses the actor model and message passing for every concurrency goal achieved by Elixir. AND you can bundle in all your existing jars if the Java world matters to you.
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