I was watching an interesting video this morning and had some thoughts I jotted down before class. I am reproducing them in their full, unsubstantiated, and provocative/controversial nature here. Later perhaps they will contribute to something a bit more formal. Note: The video features Simon Peyton-Jones talking about programming language evolution somewhat generally. I’d much [...]
So, I’ve been having and alluding to discussions with Tim Sweeney of late. I sent him an e-mail a little over two weeks back and I received word back from him about a week ago. It’s taken a while for me to digest it a little and ask his permission to post it here but [...]
So, I apparently asked a good question on Patrick Logan’s blog. And he gave me a good answer: “I can see someone making the argument in some domain I don’t usually work in that shared memory threads are better than shared nothing message passing for performance reasons. Some hard-real time scenario, some huge number crunching [...]
Wow. I have been thinking about The Concurrency Problem waaaayyy too much the last 48 hours or so. I’m coming around about STM and am really hoping I get an e-mail back from Tim Sweeney answering some questions I had. Yes, that Tim Sweeney. All the same, I’d rather Erlang or some other message passing [...]
Okay, so my earlier post was a bit “La la la la. Look at all this crazy stuff I read today! Isn’t it awesome?” and to be honest that’s just not a critical enough take on everything. I mean, all that stuff I posted made me smile but that doesn’t necessarily mean I should wave [...]