Thoughts on parallel programming?

[sybrandy]

> True enough.  But it's certainly more natural to think about than mutex-based concurrency, automatic parallelization, etc.  In the long term there may turn out to be better models, but I don't know of one today.
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> Also, there are other goals for such a design than increasing computation speed: decreased maintenance cost, system reliability, etc.  Erlang processes are equivalent to objects in C++ or Java with the added benefit of asynchronous execution in instances where an immediate response (ie. RPC) is not required.  Performance gain is a direct function of how often this is true.  But even where it's not, the other benefits exist.
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I like that description!

Casey