Ok, for everyone that is interested: this<http://www.meetup.com/Functional-Programming-Connoisseurs/messages/boards/thread/30946382>thread on meetup clarified things a bit for me and probably it's a good summary on the specific case that Lee found.
Il giorno domenica 28 aprile 2013 17:07:04 UTC+2, Lee ha scritto: > > > On Apr 28, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Manuel Paccagnella wrote: > > > > This is an interesting perspective. Are you saying that currently > Clojure doesn't offer adequate tools to take full advantage of parallel > execution on multi-core machines? > > I am speaking only from my own experience, and only relative to my own > case. But I've been unable to get reasonable speedups for my system, which > I think should be an excellent candidate for multi-core speedups. And while > I'm not an expert on JVM/Clojure performance I solicited and received > advice from people on this list who I think are, and I'm still unable to > get reasonable speedups -- maybe a couple of X but maybe not even that, on > machines with core-counts up to 48. It may have to do with the kinds of > tasks I'm running (lots of sequence manipulation and memory consumption, > etc.), but for whatever reason I am still unable to get Clojure's > oft-touted multi-core benefits. > > -Lee > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
