Re:Cons is your friend
by riffraff on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:54PM
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AFAIR one of the lessons from the Fortress development was in fact that choosing a suitable fundamental representation led to better protocols
i.e. if you assume that "the list" is implemented with conc (i.e. it's a tree) it's more natural to come up with "the loop" as parallel by default, while starting with a cons list you may more likely end up with a sequential one.
i.e. if you assume that "the list" is implemented with conc (i.e. it's a tree) it's more natural to come up with "the loop" as parallel by default, while starting with a cons list you may more likely end up with a sequential one.