Re: Multithreading, again and again

[Dave Abrahams]

on Thu Oct 20 2011, Stefan Monnier <monnier-AT-IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:

>> I think cooperativeness doesn't really eliminate the need for locks,
>
> I hope it will.

I think it can't.  If I write a (pure) function f today I should be able
to come back later and make its implementation multithreaded without
breaking all the other code that's running.  I don't see how I can do
that if instead of locking you plan to rely on people not-yielding.  If
there's no level at which parallelism can become an implementation
detail, I think you don't have a workable programming model.

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