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Takeaway: parallel programming is hard even for Googlers.

• kennystone 15y ago
  Google is a lot C++, Java, and Python, so indeed it is. Use Erlang (or similar) and parallel is easy.
  • lukesandberg 15y ago
    I don't know a lot about erlang but i doubt it makes parallelism easy all of the time. I'm sure there are many cases when the default actor model works great, but that's not a reasonable model for _every_ problem. Shared memory multithreading (for all of its faults) can be very effective for certain kinds of problems. So it can be worth the difficulty.
  • rbanffy 15y ago
    Writing parallel code is easy only when compared to writing Erlang (or similar) code ;-)