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Re:Next year's computers same speed but more cores/cpus: dev... by miked on Thursday October 01, 2009 @10:02AM (#854903)
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Clojure yet. It was designed specifically to deal with multiple cores in an elegant fashion thru atoms, agents, and software transactional memory. It might just be the answer to the challenge. Check it out, if you haven't already.
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Re:Next year's computers same speed but more cores/cpus: dev... by wglb on Thursday October 01, 2009 @01:46PM (#855396)
I have heard very good things about it including Dan Weinreb, long time lisp guy, who is very excited about it.

I would be inclined to work with clojure if I had any java projects or seriously threaded projects.

My multi-core stuff these days is done the easy way--separate long-running processes, loosely coupled.

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