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Re:The future of M:N threading by asdasf on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:04PM (#6728493)
>M:N threading has been a great idea in theory for at least twenty years, but during that whole time actually implementing it has always ended in tears.

Not always: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/

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Re:The future of M:N threading by masklinn on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:30AM (#6731462)
Or http://erlang.org
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Re:The future of M:N threading by dmpk2k on Thursday November 14, 2013 @06:13AM (#6731705)
Erlang is comparatively slow. Think of it as a waterline -- as a language implementation gets faster, other performance problems (like M:N) appear above the surface.
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Re:The future of M:N threading by masklinn on Thursday November 14, 2013 @08:33AM (#6732132)
GP didn't say "it always ends slow", but "it always ends in tears".
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