Re:Sane Concurrency with Go
by pron on Friday March 14, 2014 @06:41PM
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> ... immutable data-structures. You stick one of those suckers into an AtomicReference and presto you've got a thread-safe data-structure.
Thread-safe – yes (and Clojure does this beautifully; in fact any Clojure DS is thread-safe); concurrent – not really, because you can only have one writer at a time, which simply doesn't scale for large data structures.
> I'd love a comparison between the two btw
Quasar has true lightweight threads (M:N multithreading as in Go or Erlang), and an (optional) actor system built on top. Quasar actors can and should block as much as you want, have selective receive (just like Erlang), and are especially easy to use. Also, Quasar has Java and Clojure APIs that feel natural and idiomatic in both languages.
Thread-safe – yes (and Clojure does this beautifully; in fact any Clojure DS is thread-safe); concurrent – not really, because you can only have one writer at a time, which simply doesn't scale for large data structures.
> I'd love a comparison between the two btw
Quasar has true lightweight threads (M:N multithreading as in Go or Erlang), and an (optional) actor system built on top. Quasar actors can and should block as much as you want, have selective receive (just like Erlang), and are especially easy to use. Also, Quasar has Java and Clojure APIs that feel natural and idiomatic in both languages.