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Says our lead programmer: "The new parallel collections are amazing!"
by petervandijck 15y ago
Says our lead programmer: "The new parallel collections are amazing!"
- wcsun 15y agonice to hear that. parallel computing is the reason i choose scala.
- alnayyir 15y ago> parallel computing is the reason i choose scala. What?
- michaelcampbell 15y agoHe said, "parallel computing is the reason [he] chose Scala." That help? ;-)
- alnayyir 15y agoI don't think said person of discussion understand what parallelism is. :\
- kingcub 15y agoThis to me is amazing in it's brevity: //Uses 4 threads (1 to 4).par.foreach(x => /*some long computation*/ } I'd love to see how other languages can do it more tersely with their standard libraries.
- stuntprogrammer 15y agoIn haskell you could write something like this: parMap rseq (\x->/some long computation/) [1..4] using the standard Control.Parallel.Strategies library (use rwhnf instead of rseq unless you are using v3).
- spamizbad 15y agoIn python: from multiprocessing import Pool p = Pool(4) # 4 worker threads p.map(somefunc, someiter) Not sure if this is apples-to-apples. Regardless, I'm always skeptical of the behavior of threaded code, even if it's embarrassingly parallel stuff that is divided among workers.
- fauigerzigerk 15y agoUnfortunately the multiprocessing module is a lot less efficient in many cases. Scala doesn't have to copy the entire collection across process boundaries or launch the runtime multiple times. (In this particular rather trivial example it doesn't matter much because an Int range is used). I'm afraid Python is losing out in the parallel world due to the GIL as more CPU cores become the norm.