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Re:Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is ... by pron on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:44PM (#7179814)
Sure, but the point is that to avoid that you need either functional programming or lightweight threads (though the two are certainly not mutually exclusive).
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Re:Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is ... by asabil on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:50PM (#7179851)
Put the two together and you get Erlang
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Re:Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is ... by pron on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:52PM (#7179864)
Or Pulsar: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/05/02/quasar-pulsar/
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