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by pcwalton
3846 days ago
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> Just remember that there is no big conceptual difference between blocking and locking, which is what you end up doing when having shared mutable state. Conceptually, yes, but the incredibly low overhead of CPU atomics compared to message passing (especially on x86) mean that theory and practice are very different. |
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