<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 18 Oct 2011, at 11:47, Joe Armstrong wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Mutithreaded C implies some kind of data exchange between<br>different C threads - now there are many ways to do this - the<br>cleanest alternative<br>is by copying message passing. The dirtiest - is by shared memory and mutexes.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I beg to differ. The dirtiest way is by shared memory *without* mutexes. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Ulf Wiger, CTO, Erlang Solutions, Ltd.</div><div><a href="http://erlang-solutions.com">http://erlang-solutions.com</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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