24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
7:36 p.m.
jwlato:
In addition to STM, another item that should interest serious programmers is forkIO. Lightweight threads that (unlike in Python) can use multiple cpu's. Coming from Python, I personally appreciate this. Using STM to handle concurrency issues often greatly simplifies multithreaded code.
And further on this, the use of `par` in pure code to make it go multicore is way beyond what most people think is possible. -- Don