[erlang-questions] Erlang newbie questions

[Joe Armstrong]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ulf Wiger
<ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:
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> On 18 Oct 2011, at 11:47, Joe Armstrong wrote:
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> Mutithreaded C implies some kind of data exchange between
> different C threads - now there are many ways to do this - the
> cleanest alternative
> is by copying message passing. The dirtiest - is by shared memory and
> mutexes.
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> I beg to differ. The dirtiest way is by shared memory *without* mutexes.

You mean ... I didn't know that was possible - I though emacs detected
this and you were instantly
fired and your house set on fire, and your bones melted down for glue
and so on ...

/J


>  ;-)
> BR,
> Ulf W
> Ulf Wiger, CTO, Erlang Solutions, Ltd.
> http://erlang-solutions.com
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