We even have a package manager, NIX, built on this functional thinking,
and a Linux distribution, NixOS, which is using this package manager.
/Erling
On 2016-10-02 11:25, Erling Hellenäs wrote:
No - I wish I knew somewhere this is clearly described. What I think
is that in functional languages with non-mutable data we can avoid
locking. Non-mutable data simplifies parallelization since the objects
we work on never change. It enables massive parallelization without
any locking schemes, I think. I hope someone in the forum can describe
this better or link to some nice description. /Erling
On 2016-10-01 23:28, Henry Rich wrote:
It sounds like you are conflating 'mutex' and 'mutable'.
Henry Rich
On 10/1/2016 4:15 PM, Erling Hellenäs wrote:
I think non-mutable data is part of the solution to the locking
problems in object-oriented languages. It seems there must be a
limit after which even J has to use more than one thread? Is there a
plan for how to handle that? Or are we using several threads
already? /Erling
On 2016-10-01 21:56, Erling Hellenäs wrote:
On 2016-10-01 15:40, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming wrote:
Forcing immutable only arrays is not an option for this language
if it is to remain compatible with itself
Someone wants to give a more specific explanation to this? What in
the language prevents immutable only arrays?
/Erling
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