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Erlang is not about parallelism, it's about fault tolerance. It's about "making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" (as Armstrong's
by silentbicycle 14y ago
Erlang is not about parallelism, it's about fault tolerance. It's about "making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" (as Armstrong's thesis is titled).
How will your STM example behave if the computer managing the transactions suddenly has a massive hardware failure?
- johndonsp 14y agoI completely agree with you about fault-tolerance. However Erlang, CSP, actors and message passing are heralded as the key to parallelism. The Erlang book still promises n-times speedup for n-cores, with not enough of a caveat.
- silentbicycle 14y agoI'm not familiar with the plane scheduling problem, there is probably room to parallelize it further. I suspect people are far less likely to book seats on both sides of the aisle(s) at the same time, for example. Knowing more about those things, airline regulations, and so on will probably present other opportunities.