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Pick a reference frame. Sample the state of each CPU on its clock edge. Now you have a sequence of transitions. The sequence is heavily non-deterministic, but
by arielb1 10y ago
Pick a reference frame. Sample the state of each CPU on its clock edge. Now you have a sequence of transitions.
The sequence is heavily non-deterministic, but that's life in a concurrent universe.
- argv_empty 10y agoI'm not sure it's useful to try to discuss concurrency with someone who refuses to believe that a group of machines can be in a state (which is really the point of the article).
- Const-me 10y agoA non-deterministic sequence ain’t a sequence. The thing is called “partially ordered set”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_ordered_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_ordered_set