Re:Asynchrony Is Not Concurrency
by Yoric on Saturday July 19, 2025 @05:46AM
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sympathizes
If you look on the bright side, it looks like free-threading is approaching, and OCaml has demonstrated how, by removing the GIL and adding exactly one primitive, you can turn a powerful enough language into a concurrency/parallelism powerhouse with minimal user-visible changes!
If you look on the bright side, it looks like free-threading is approaching, and OCaml has demonstrated how, by removing the GIL and adding exactly one primitive, you can turn a powerful enough language into a concurrency/parallelism powerhouse with minimal user-visible changes!