Shared memory is kind of a degenerate case of message-passing when you think about cache-coherency protocols and such. I'd argue erlang's message-passing isn't inherently superior, but kind of obfuscates the issue.
What's the sequential fraction of an arbitrary erlang program, can you even know (I don't know erlang, so I'm honestly asking)? Shared memory pretty darn convenient, and we don't have hundred-core+ boxes yet. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> cough cough erlang cough ahem > > Care to elaborate? :-) > > "Now his point is that GC acts a super GIL which effectively kills all > the hard work done on the language and application design level." > > erlang's approach to gc / sharing data / multi process / smp is i > think an interesting sweet spot. there sure as heck is not a GIL > effect by the GC. > > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
