Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 11:16 +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> hm. yes, that was "coroutines on steroids".

But that's the point isn't it:

1. Processes are too heavyweight, invent threads.
2. We have masses of cores, let's map threads to cores via the kernel.
3. Processes and threads are too heavyweight, invent lightweight 
threads (aka fibres, sort of).

It could be argued that it is all just co-routines underneath, but I 
think that would be missing the point that we have 55 years more 
experience of doing these things since that single processor operating 
system model was created. We really should be doing this all a lot 
better these days.

-- 
Russel.
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