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Who would ever design a language to be concurrent but not parallel? Seems like a work of masochism.
by duaneb 11y ago
Who would ever design a language to be concurrent but not parallel? Seems like a work of masochism.
- verbin217 11y agoIt was intended for low latency services that mostly wait on I/O. These services don't compute enough to need parallelism. Especially when you can just fork another process or FFI to a C library with proper threading if you need it. It is necessary that they be concurrent but parallelism introduces a LOT of complexity beyond that.