belm0

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1. 1.▲
   by belm0 4y ago

   In 2004, a friend and I tried to do something along these lines, a structured system to remunerate open source developers (among producers of other types of digital works). I remember trying to pitch a presentation for one of the Debian co
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   by belm0 4y ago

   I'm open, as always, to refining my understanding of what structured concurrency is, what various forms it takes on, and how it came about. I don't think it's so obvious that the article has misstated, however. I was not-qui
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   by belm0 4y ago

   Actually, there are advantages to embracing single-OS-thread programming. It's an incredibly efficient use of CPU resources, and you generally don't need explicit locking. Resulting programs are much easier to understand, mainta
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   by belm0 4y ago

   This doesn't work well in practice, because part of structured concurrency (at least as Python Trio introduced it) is to have a sane story about cancellation and timeouts. There isn't a safe way to cancel an OS thread or process