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I'm curious how they map Clojure's persistent data structures with many threads onto Lua states.

• nickik 14y ago
  Clojure data structures do not have many threads. Clojure separates the form of the data and the way that they are processed. All Clojure Data Structures are completly feasable in a single threaded language.
  • dmpk2k 14y ago
    They're feasible, but a lot less interesting if you're not taking advantage of multiple cores.
    • nickik 14y ago
      I disagree, functional programming is the right way to go without multithreading.
      • z3phyr 14y ago
        Functional programming makes multithreading easier. This is one of the primary reason people are taking interest in this way of programming.
        • nickik 14y ago
          It got popular for this but generally functional programmers are not fans of functional programming because of multicore. Rich Hicky for example has pointed this out in many diffrent talks.