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Comment by ascar

3 years ago

> I am really interested in parallel, asynchronous, multithreading, coroutine, futures programming so it's what I spend my days thinking about and blogging about it.

That's not parallel programming though. Parallell programming deals with the parallelization of a single sequential algorithm or program (e.g. weather simulation) across multiple threads, CPU or machines, usually with the requirement of real time synchronization. When you paralellize independent tasks (async, coroutines, futures) a whole lot of problems just don't exist and others go more into focus.

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samsquire  3 years ago

What would you call what I'm working on, it is "parallel" but probably doesn't come under "parallel programming" in the literature. I'm still interested in it though, just haven't got around to it yet, it's a large space.

I'm not working on novel parallel algorithms that solve computer science problems, I am interested in parallelism as a general principle for coordinating systems activities.

When I get time to delve into parallel algorithms then I'll work on that, at the moment there's a lot of work in just cordinating and scheduling parallel tasks.

I am also interested in this area of database internals such as parallel query execution and concurrency control and wait/lockfree algorithms

I feel it is complicated and wide space and we deceive ourselves to think we know everything or hubris, which I expressly avoid doing.