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He said "heavily contended", and then you dropped the "heavily" prefix and claimed that was literally what he said. That adverb is material to the discussion an
by netheril96 9y ago
He said "heavily contended", and then you dropped the "heavily" prefix and claimed that was literally what he said. That adverb is material to the discussion and your dropping it completely changes the meaning.
I concur with his opinion. Infrequent contention is not a bug; otherwise no mutex is needed. Frequent contention (or heavy contention in his words) is a performance bug.
- mehrdadn 9y ago> He said "heavily contended", and then you dropped the "heavily" prefix and claimed that was literally what he said. That adverb is material to the discussion and your dropping it completely changes the meaning. "Heavily" was not dropped intentionally at all. Add it back to my comments. It changes nothing whatsoever. The incredible opinion that every problem can be necessarily parallelized without eventually resulting in contention (and I license you to freely modify this term with 'light', 'heavy', 'medium-rare', 'salted', 'peppered', or 'grilled at 450F' to your taste) is so fantastically absurd that I cannot believe you are debating it. I definitely don't know how you can justify such an unfounded claim with no evidence and I certainly have no interest in wasting time debating it. As I said earlier: if you never encounter problems that exhibit eventual scalability limits, more power to you.