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That section is about threads. This is not a distributed system (running on different machines), it's a concurrent system (running in one machine.) Anyway ther
by pmontra 5y ago
That section is about threads. This is not a distributed system (running on different machines), it's a concurrent system (running in one machine.)
Anyway there is overlap between the two terms so strictly speaking the author is not wrong. But is anything with threads a distributed system? If so I built many of them, even with Python .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing
- catern 5y agoThey're distributed threads. As it says in http://catern.com/caternetes.html#thread http://catern.com/caternetes.html#thread: >An rsyscall.Thread may operate on a local or remote host, or inside a container or VM, or on other kinds of nodes, depending on how the rsyscall.Thread was produced... >All distributed operations are performed by method calls on rsyscall.Thread objects.