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Comment by xxxyy

11 years ago

Thanks for the lwn and cambridge links, they both look like a good read. Considering the big picture I feel like we need another Tony Hoare to show us good ways to reason about shared memory concurrent programs. CSP is cool, but at some point Erlang/Go message passing style is not enough, and one must dive deep into the crazy world of parallel processor architectures. It is my opinion that before somebody sorts this out well we should not expect processor manufacturers to play along - after all hardly anybody understands shared memory concurrency well.