Kinds of containers

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 14:49 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-
d wrote:
> 
[…]
> That's actually the experience in the Scala community. Over and again
> people start with immutable containers all over the place because 
> they're cool, and end up with mutable containers because they work. -
> 

For some applications, I am sure this true. For the majority no. I have
no doubt that for some people fashion and trendy are decision making
criteria when clearly they should be thinking about efficacy and
efficiency. However it is important to remember that
persistent/functional data structures are generally both efficacious
and efficient in a fine-grain parallel context. Sadly a lot of this is
advocacy research because there is no systematic, statistically
significant research that is credible. Scala might have been a nice
context to try some experimentation but they still do not have really
good data structure implementations. Hence the recent notification of
another rewrite.

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Russel.
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