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Fork-join and dataflow models are parallel computing solutions. Are you suggesting that one should strive to solve concurrency problems with parallel computing
by 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 agoNo 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 agoI wonder how many years of fork() we had before someone finally had a second core to run things on.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThis is just a nonsense semantic game. Everything gets synchronized or serialized at some point, even if it is hardware that does it.
- chrisseaton 6y agoLook 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.