Questions tagged [concurrency]
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Should thread handles be atomic or thread-safe types?
I'm working on a general-purpose language, and right now I'm working on its threading library.
So far, I've worked out how to realize idiomatic critical sections - mutex objects that wraps values for ...
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Alternatives for stackless async I/O implementation?
I find it interesting to have stackless asynchronous I/O, e.g. when using an HTTP-client in the code, the call-stack get emptied before handling next "event" (could be unrelated or the ...
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What runtime strategies make BEAM so good at concurrency?
BEAM (Erlang virtual machine) is known for having the ability to run huge amounts of concurrent processes, and very large amounts of messages between those processes. What runtime strategies does it ...
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