Rob Pike's Newsqueak - some good concepts

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noname a écrit :
> Mikola Lysenko Wrote:
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>> Concurrent programming has enormous applications, but it has yet to gain much mainstream traction yet.  Partly because present implementations are inefficient, and partly because there is a substantial knowledge barrier to entry.
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>> -Mik
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> It is surprising how much difference in performance there is between implementations of concurrency (mutexes and threads) between different languages. 
> 
> If I refer to this:
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=chameneos&lang=all
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=message&lang=all
> 
> Haskell seems to perform the best, while Java and C++ (pthreads) are mediocre. D seems to be doing not too bad.

Note that this kind of mono-CPU benchmark without knowledge of how it 
scales to SMP CPUs is not very useful IMHO.

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