A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Mar 18 01:09:29 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 20:50:51 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>
>> Go is only a CSP-like, it isn't CSP. cf Python-CSP and PyCSP, 
>> not to
>> mention JCSP and GPars.
>
> I'm not really sure whether this can be put exactly that way. 
> On a machine with 4 GB RAM you can spawn about 80.000 
> goroutines (aka green threads). Let's say each threads 
> calculates a large fibonacci number. If the fibonacci 
> calculation yields the processor frequently all 80.000 run 
> seamingly in parallel and return their result almost "at the 
> same time".
>
> With GPars this would not work. You can only start some 2.000 
> Java threads on a machine with the same amount of memory. If 
> also the fibonacci calculation in Groovy/GPars yields the 
> processor, using GPars the first 2.000 fibonacci calculations 
> will nevertheless crowd out the following 2.000 threads of all 
> those 80.000 fibonacci calculations and so on. I once tried 
> this out with both Go and Groovy/GPars.
>
> -- Bienlein

What about using a JVM with green threads support or Quasar, 
wouldn't it be more comparable?

--
Paulo


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