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What are the alternatives that are deterministic?

• chrisseaton 6y ago
  Structured concurrency - fork and join models, or dataflow models, for example. Or clocked models like a physical circuit.
  • joubert 6y ago
    Fork-join and dataflow models are parallel computing solutions. Are you suggesting that one should strive to solve concurrency problems with parallel computing approaches?
    • valenterry 6y ago
      No they are not. You can easily do concurrency with a fork-join approach on just on thread (no parallel execution). fork-join in the browser with e.g. V8 as the runtime is a good example of that.
      • aarongolliver 6y ago
        I wonder how many years of fork() we had before someone finally had a second core to run things on.
    • CyberDildonics 6y ago
      This is just a nonsense semantic game. Everything gets synchronized or serialized at some point, even if it is hardware that does it.
    • chrisseaton 6y ago
      Look up 'forking web server'. It predates common multiprocessors. Why do you think that is? Because it's useful for concurrency even when there is no parallelism.