Arved Sandstrom wrote: > Jon Harrop wrote: >> 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. > > Jon, I do concurrent programming all the time, as do most of my peers. > Way down on the list of why we do it is the reduction of latency.
What is higher on the list? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
