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While explicitly sharing memory isn't a great solution to threading, one shouldn't think message passing is some sort of panacea either, you can end up with thi

by Profan 12y ago

While explicitly sharing memory isn't a great solution to threading, one shouldn't think message passing is some sort of panacea either, you can end up with things such as race conditions or deadlocks if you're not careful there as well. Though it is admittedly a fair bit more sane for most applications.

pekk 12y ago
It's not that it is a panacea, just that it is comparatively nice and safe.
- jerf 12y ago
  As I like to say, shared-nothing & message passing takes an exponential problem and turns it into a polynomial one. It still isn't "easy", but at least it's back in the realm of feasible.