On 23 July 2012 17:54, Martijn Verburg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kevin
>
> > But it also demonstrates  the performance benefit of avoiding
> > locks - which can easily harm performance much more than GC pressure.
>  This
> > is the same reason that the asynchronous model also performs so well,
> even
> > in the presence of immutable objects.
>
> I like Clojure's approach in that it generally only copies the small
> amount of data it needs.  That said, if you 'need' to operate
> concurrently on all 1,000,000 elements in that data structure then
> yo'd best learn about GC tuning :-).
>
>
Oh yes... You can be quite sure of that!
All good clean fun though :)

The alternative is to get one of those nice shiny Azul boxes, they tend to
be a tad pricey though.



> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>

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