Rob Pike's Newsqueak - some good concepts

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Mikola Lysenko Wrote:

> 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

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.