On 2006-02-03, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:56:41PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:03:08AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> > I know, of course, that Java green threads and Haskell forkIO threads >> > are called "threads", but I personally believe its misleading to call it >> > concurrency -- they're not doing more than one thing at a time. >> >> Aren't you thinking about Parallellism? > > No. > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_%28computer_science%29 >> In computer science, concurrency is a property of systems which >> consist of computations that execute overlapped in time > > You're not doing anything simultaneously ("overlapped in time") when > you're using poll and select (only). To do something simultaneously in > Unix, you'd have to either use fork() or start a thread.
That was his point. Threading is a way of structuring a program. Parallelism is a strategy for exploiting that structuring (and others). -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
