Concurrency means performance, yes?
One thing I heard a lot at the Mostly Functional conference last week that concurrency is required for performance on multicore processors. Since Moore’s Law ended it is certainly true that the old...
View ArticleClojure Exchange 2013: Tommy Hall on Concurrency versus Parallelism
One of the really interesting talks at Clojure Exchange 2013 was one by Tommy Hall with the (not good) title You came for the concurrency, right?. The talk had two main threads. It served as a helpful...
View ArticleTrading performance for asynchronicity
An unusual conversation came up at one of the discussion groups in the day job recently. One of the interesting things that the Javascript language specification provides is a very good description of...
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