[erlang-questions] Parallel Shootout & a style question

Toby Thain toby@REDACTED
Tue Sep 2 17:31:29 CEST 2008


On 2-Sep-08, at 5:08 AM, Mats Cronqvist wrote:

> Gleb Peregud wrote:
>> Maybe it is good idea to include something like
>> http://code.google.com/p/plists/ into Erlang/OTP? It will probably
>> introduce more less tuned software created by developers, but it will
>> make programming multi-core systems much more easier and fun for
>> beginners.
>   in an ideal world, all the basic OTP libs should be rewritten to be
> parallel. who gives an expletive if it's 10% slower on a single core
> machine?


Well said!

--Toby



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