On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:03:08AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Maybe this is just me being dense, but how is poll or select > concurrency? There is no multiprocessing involved; it is simply a more > efficient way to find which file descriptors are ready for some I/O > action. > > I know, of course, that Java green threads and Haskell forkIO threads > are called "threads", but I personally believe its misleading to call it > concurrency -- they're not doing more than one thing at a time.
Aren't you thinking about Parallellism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_%28computer_science%29 In computer science, concurrency is a property of systems which consist of computations that execute overlapped in time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_programming Parallel computing is the simultaneous execution of the same task (split up and specially adapted) on multiple processors in order to obtain results faster. This agrees with what I have read in many texts on the subjects. Best regards Tomasz -- I am searching for programmers who are good at least in (Haskell || ML) && (Linux || FreeBSD || math) for work in Warsaw, Poland _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
