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A paradigm that Dave Farley has mentioned could be on the same level as OOP or structured programming is a completely asynchronous programming language. Every o
by whatsakandr 4y ago
A paradigm that Dave Farley has mentioned could be on the same level as OOP or structured programming is a completely asynchronous programming language. Every operation would have no garunteee of executing immediately. Such a thing may unlock more performance for cheaper on modern multicore cpus.
- 082349872349872 4y agoWhen we tried async-everything in the 1980's we discovered that there is such a thing as too-fine grained parallelism: the sweet spot (problem dependent!) is where communication and computation are balanced.