http://www.pragprog.com/magazines/download/1.pdf Page 16 RH talks about Erlang and Scala vs Clojure in an interview I found it to be a very useful comparison.
On Sep 18, 8:54 am, dongbo <dongb.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can any one give a comparison between Clojure and Erlang on concurrent > programming? > > Both of them are kinda pure functional programming language, which > avoiding the state changes in general. Erlang provides message passing > mechanism to handle the inter-thread communication, while Clojure uses > the transactional memory. The difference probably would lie in that > Erlang provides a light-weight process module to support great amount > user-land process, making the scheduling cost much less, but as for > Clojure, since the codes will eventually executed in JVM anyway, I > guess it would still use the java implementation of thread. > > I'm very curious about the difference between these two in the aspect > of concurrent programming. Which one would be more efficient? So, I > would be appreciated if any of you guys can give more information on > this. > > Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
