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carapace on Jan 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can...

It's hard or easy depending on your model (of parallelism) and what you want to do with it.

From a certain POV computers are always doing things in parallel (8-, 16-, 32-, 64-bits at a time, and so on, eh?)

Has anyone mentioned Pi Calculus yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-calculus

kvakil on Jan 13, 2020 [–]

Anecdote: for me the actor model has been the most understandable and useful concurrency primitive I've used. Pi-calculus, which was inspired by the actor model, is similarly elegant.

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