Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Lew wrote: >> Interesting distinction. Would it be fair to compare concurrent >> programming to the bricks used to build the parallel program's edifice? > > Way too much of a fine distinction. While they are in fact different, > the point of concurrent programming is to structure programs as a group > of computations, which can be executed in parallel (however that might > actually be done depending on how many processors there are).
No. Concurrent programming is about interleaving computations in order to reduce latency. Nothing to do with parallelism. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
