why concurrency in the first place?

Vlad Dumitrescu vladdu@REDACTED
Wed Feb 7 21:11:24 CET 2001


Hi

I find this discussion very interesting.

But right now I'd like to ask something about something Ulf said:

From: "Ulf Wiger" <etxuwig@REDACTED>
> Looking into, say, the A side half-call, you will find several
> independent state machines. They are not concurrent in one sense, as
> their state transitions are tightly coupled, but you can, for example
> replace one (protocol) layer 3 FSM with another. As it turns out,
> implementing these FSMs as separate processes in Erlang would be a
> mistake.

Why would it be a mistake? (I can think of some reasons, but I'd like to hear yours... :-)

Is it the tight coupling? Efficiency? A design 'no-no'?

regards,
Vlad





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